Nanosatellite Operator Sky and Space Global Completes 3 Diamonds Testing Ahead of May Launch
Sky and Space (SAS) Global, a satellite company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), has announced that it has completed testing of its ground and space communications systems in preparation...
Japan’s ispace selects SpaceX for first two lunar missions
ispace, a Japan-based company developing robotics for lunar delivery and resource exploration, announced today that SpaceX will be the launch provider for its first two maiden voyages to the Moon scheduled...
Upcoming launches in late June to mid-July 2017
28 June 2017: Ariane5 ECA/HellasSat-3 & GSAT-17
Launch Vehicle: Ariane5 ECA, manufactured by Arianespace
Payloads: Hellas Sat 3-Inmarsat S EAN (commercial satellite), GSAT-17 (communications satellite, India)
Launch date: 28 June 2017
Launch time: Between 5:59pm...
ESA-JAXA Mercury mission BepiColombo successfully launched on Ariane 5
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo joint mission to Mercury has been launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its mission.
Signals from the spacecraft,...
Rocket Lab’s Electron successfully reaches orbit on 2nd launch attempt
Today, at 14:43 NZDT (GMT+13), Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit with the second test flight of its Electron orbital launch vehicle Still Testing. The two-stage liquid fuel rocket, which has a...
UNSW Canberra launches 1st satellite, opens national space mission design facility
Australia’s first national space mission design facility was officially opened yesterday by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the University of New South Wales Canberra (UNSW Canberra), according to a press...
ISRO 2020: What to look out for in India’s space programme
On New Year’s Day, the Chairman of India’s space agency
ISRO, K. Sivan, held a press conference to make public the agency’s
accomplishments of 2019 and share its plans for 2020. Here are...
KARI contracts MDA for lunar mission communication subsystems
South Korea's space agency, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), has awarded a contract worth over US$5.74 million (CA$7 million) to Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA).
Under the contract, MDA...
India completes Phase 1 of NavIC constellation with IRNSS1I launch
Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched IRNSS-1I into Geosynchronous orbit (GSO) using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C41 on Thursday morning, April 12, 2018 at 0404 (IST) from its Satish Dhawan...
China’s Long March 2C launches China-France CFOSat, Belarus’ BSUSat-1, 6 Chinese smallsats
Today, at 8:43 a.m. Beijing time (GMT+8), China’s Long March 2C rocket launched the China France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. Piggybacking on the satellite were Belarus’ first...
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