Orbital ATK announced significant progress on the industry’s first commercial in-space satellite servicing system. The Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) spacecraft successfully completed its critical design review earlier this year and is now in production with about 75% of the platform and payload components already delivered to the company’s Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Virginia.
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: two GRACE Follow-On spacecraft, five Iridium NEXT satellites; Date: 22 May 2018, 1947 UTC; Launch site:…
Telesat announced that orbit raising and payload testing on its Phase 1 LEO satellite have been completed and that the…
Rocket: Antares; Payload: Cygnus "S.S. J.R. Thompson"; Date: 21 May 2018, 0844 UTC; Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island,…
Rocket: Chang Zheng-4C; Payload: Queqiao, Longjiang-1, Longjiang-2; Date: 20 May 2018, 2128 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China.…
Lockheed Martin recently put its fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) satellite through its paces in realistic simulations of its…
The launch of a Soyuz MS spacecraft by a Soyuz-2.1a is planned for August 2019. The spacecraft will fly unmanned,…