June 2017

http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2017/06/06/iridium-next-satellites-prep-second-launch/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/government/2017/06/06/jpl-selects-aox-wide-field-infrared-survey-telescope-contract/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2017/06/06/hughesnet-gen5-surpasses-100000-subscribers-two-months/

Rocket: GSLV Mk III; Payload: GSAT-19; Date: 5 June 2017, 1158 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India. The new rocket,the most powerful ever built by India, placed the 3,136-kilogram GSAT-19 communications satellite into an on-target Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The separation occurred around 16 minutes after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017060500

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon; Date: 3 June 2017, 2107:38; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. It is SpaceX’s eleventh Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-11) to the International Space Station. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017060501

A International Launch Services Proton Briz M is to launch EchoStar XXI on 8 June 2017 at 0345:47 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017060502

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced that its Cygnus spacecraft successfully unberthed from the International Space Station, beginning the next phase of its mission before it reenters Earth’s atmosphere. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017060503

The European GNSS Agency, GSA, through its GNSS Service Centre, has published the first of its regular quarterly performance reports on Galileo. This ‘European GNSS (Galileo) Initial Services Open Service’ report, now available online, covers the first three months of 2017. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017060504

http://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2017/06/05/phased-array-antennas-can-deliver-2/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2017/06/05/digitalglobe-announces-new-monitoring-defense-intelligence/