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Rocket: Soyuz; Payload: SES-15; Date: 18 May 2017, 1154 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The satellite was placed into a 2,207 km x 31,348.9 km x 5.99 degrees orbit as planned. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017051800
In a first for a European mission, Teledyne e2v’s re-engineered PC7448 microprocessors will be used at the heart of Thales Alenia Space’s on-board computer (OBC) that serve the Lightning Imager (LI) systems on EUMETSAT’s next generation Meteosat geostationary meteorological satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017051801
The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced the signing of a new contract to provide Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) with a small microsatellite for aerosol and greenhouse gas monitoring. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017051802
Thales Alenia Space will supply the Argos Neo instrument for the nano-satellite demonstrator Angels (Argos Neo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite). The satellite for this French space agency CNES mission is being built by Nexeya. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017051803
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