September 2016

http://www.satellitetoday.com/publications/st/2016/09/12/france-24-debuts-hd-service-asiasat-5/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2016/09/12/advantech-wireless-announces-new-vsat-transceiver-router/

Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: OSIRIS-REx; Date: 8 September 2016, 2305 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Atlas V launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into a hyperbolic trajectory away from Earth where it will begin a seven-year mission to return an asteroid sample. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016090900

The four spacecraft to be orbited on Arianespace’s first launch of Galileo navigation satellites by Ariane 5 have begun their processing at the Spaceport in preparation for a November lift-off from French Guiana. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016090901

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the company’s launchpad rocket incident on 1 September is proving to be "the most difficult and complex failure" it has ever encountered. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016090902

Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, are assessing two power system-related anomalies affecting the operation of NASA’s ISS-RapidScat instrument aboard the International Space Station. RapidScat measures surface wind speeds and directions over the ocean. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016090903

http://www.satellitetoday.com/government/2016/09/09/army-weighs-ring-cubesats-next-satellite-demonstration/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadcasting/2016/09/09/globecast-renews-ses-5-capacity-uplink-services-africa/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadcasting/2016/09/09/sky-group-buys-eutelsat-16a-capacity-satellite-newsgathering-europe/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadcasting/2016/09/09/maxlinear-mstar-develop-stb-reference-design-ultra-hd-satellite-broadcast/