on 17/04/2018 at 14h39
Orbital ATK has further revealed details of its OmegA launch vehicle for the U.S. Air Force Evolved, Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programme. The launcher — previously known as the Next Generation Launch System (NGLS) — will compete with offerings from United Launch Alliance (ULA), SpaceX and...
on 16/04/2018 at 14h26
In its forty-third flight, ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C41 successfully launched the 1,425kg IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite on 12th April from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. PSLV-C41 lifted off at 0404 hrs (4:04 am) IST, as planned, from the First Launch Pad. After a...
on 13/04/2018 at 15h40
Airbus has entered into an agreement with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co. Ltd. (21AT), the Chinese commercial satellite operator, for the distribution of the images acquired by the TripleSat constellation. The TripleSat constellation consists of three identical very high-resolution...
on 09/04/2018 at 14h20
Performing its third mission of the year, Ariane 5 successfully orbited satellites for Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Avanti Communications of the UK on 5th April. The two satellites took the total number of satellites orbited by the European launcher beyond the 200 mark. The mission,...
on 03/04/2018 at 10h36
Aireon has announced the fifth successful launch and deployment of its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payloads, hosted by the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. At 7:13:51 AM PDT (14:13:51 UTC) on 30th March, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air...
on 30/03/2018 at 17h44
India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F08) successfully launched the GSAT-6A satellite into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on 29th March 2018. The launch, the twelfth for GSLV, took place from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR,...
on 27/03/2018 at 12h02
The first high-capacity space-to-ground laser communication system is to be installed on the Bartolomeo platform of the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a collaboration between Airbus Defence and Space, the Institute of Communications and Navigation of DLR (German Aerospace Centre) and...
on 20/03/2018 at 15h49
The Airbus-operated SpaceDataHighway has begun regularly relaying data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, after the successful end of the commissioning period. This marks the start of the SpaceDataHighway service using all four Copernicus Sentinel satellites. The first two sets of Earth-observing...
on 13/03/2018 at 17h54
The European Union’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) has officially launched the EDG2E project (Equipment for Dual frequency Galileo GPS and EGNOS) with a consortium led by Thales. This four-year project intends to develop a dual-frequency multi-constellation receiver, enabling...
on 12/03/2018 at 10h19
ISRO Chairman K. Sivan and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall have signed an agreement to jointly develop a constellation of microsatellites. The agreement — signed on 10th March in New Delhi in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron — encompasses...
on 16/02/2018 at 17h18
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of French space agency CNES, has underlined the role played by the agency in nurturing relations between private “NewSpace” players in India and France. Le Gall was in New Delhi to take part in the 4th Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Kalpana Chawla Space Policy...
on 16/02/2018 at 14h23
The re-ignitable Vinci engine, which will power the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, has successfully completed two subsystem qualification campaigns (designated M6 and M7) which included 140 engine tests. The tests in campaigns M6 and M7, which are vital for qualification of engine...
on 16/02/2018 at 11h03
Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind-sensing satellite, has left Liège in Belgium having finally completed an extensive thermal and functional performance test campaign under in-orbit conditions. It will now undergo final checks at InteSpace test centre in Toulouse, France, before being...
on 15/02/2018 at 10h43
Arianespace has named Vivian Quenet as its new Managing Director and Head of Sales for the Asia-Pacific region, effective 15th February. In taking up the position at Arianespace Singapore Pte Ltd, Quenet will be in charge of the development and consolidation of Arianespace’s commercial and...
on 13/02/2018 at 14h37
The Thales Alenia Space plant in Toulouse has developed and qualified a new deployable antenna reflector. Designed for the company’s future communications satellites, especially the Spacebus NEO product line, this new reflector is 2.6m in diameter and features a highly standardised design....
