India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is set for its first multi-orbit mission on Monday, lifting a group of eight satellites into two different orbits for operators from India, the U.S., Canada and Algeria.
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SpaceX narrowed the cause of the September 1 on-pad explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket to a large breach within the vehicle’s second stage cryogenic helium system, the California-based company said in a statement on Friday.
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Planet Labs’ Flock 1B-1 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on September 22, 2016 after nearly one year in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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North Korea carried out a test of a high-powered rocket engine in what is likely to be the precursor to the country’s next attempt to put a working satellite into orbit.
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Planet Labs’ Flock 1B-7 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on September 21, 2016 after nearly one year in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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The Cryogenic Upper Stage from an Ariane 44L launch in the 1990s re-entered the atmosphere in September 2010 after slowly spiraling down from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Three SmallSat operators in the United States have received contracts to deliver Earth Observation and meteorology data to the U.S. government, further cementing a trend of growing CubeSat and MicroSatellite use for operational applications in Low Earth Orbit.
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Airbus Defence and Space announced it will finance and deploy a constellation of Very-High-Resolution (VHR) satellite to deliver Earth observation products.
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NASA’s IRIS Mission Studying a dynamic region on the Sun received two-year mission extension to continue delivering the most detailed spectral collections and images from the sun’s lower atmosphere from where solar activity is driven.
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Work is currently underway by several private and government entities to diagnose what might be a systemic issue in satellite propulsion systems in use for different programs.
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China’s Tiangong-2 space laboratory arrived near its operational orbit after completing a pair of orbit-raising maneuvers following its successful launch on Thursday.
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The launch of the next crew flying to the International Space Station is facing a multi-week delay after a fault was discovered in their Soyuz spacecraft in the late stages of testing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome from where the three-man crew was to launch later this week.
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After encountering a late launch scrub due to technical problems on Friday, the ULA Atlas V rocket will have to remain on the ground until at least Tuesday, September 20 because a wildfire near its California launch pad will require the focused attention of teams at the launch base.
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Europe’s Vega rocket thundered into the night skies over the Guiana Space Center on Thursday to lift into orbit a high-resolution imaging satellite for operation by the government of Peru plus a group of four Earth observation satellites for Google company Terra Bella.
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China successfully placed its mini Space Station Tiangong-2 into orbit on Thursday after a flawless nighttime launch by its Long March 2F carrier rocket.
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The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the WorldView-4 Earth-imaging satellite had to be scrubbed minutes before the scheduled liftoff time on Friday due to technical issues with a ground support system.
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Europe’s Vega rocket thundered into the night skies over the Guiana Space Center on Thursday to lift into orbit a high-resolution imaging satellite for operation by the government of Peru plus a group of four Earth observation satellites for Google company Terra Bella.
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