Satellite News

China has successfully tested technology that can control the landing sites of falling rocket fairings, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).

Thales Alenia Space has successfully completed the first study phase of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) HydRON (High-thRoughput Optical space Network) project.

ESA will further increase the competitiveness and environmental sustainability of Europe’s Vega launch system beyond 2025 through a contract, worth €118.8 million, signed with Avio in Italy.

The launch of first Russia’s next-generation GLONASS-K2 navigation satellite has been postponed until 2022, a rocket and space industry source was quoted as saying by Tass news agency.

Rocket: Proton M; Payload: Nauka (‘Science’) a.k.a. Mnogozelewoi Laboratorny Modul (MLM); Date: 21 July 2021, 1458 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Nauka module separated from the rocket after a flight of less than 10 minutes as planned and will now ignite its engines to approach the International Space Station (ISS).

EarthDaily Analytics Corp., a vertically-integrated data processing and analytics company, announced the timeline for the launch of the company’s new constellation of Earth observing satellites.

Serco Germany has been awarded a new contract by the European Space Agency to provide support services for the European Space Operation Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.

ESA said that companies with small satellites are set to benefit from a new end-to-end space transportation service offering additional in-orbit flexibility proposed by D-Orbit and supported through the agency’s Boost! programme.