Having been mentioned in its recent Q2 2021 earnings call Sirius XM has ordered a new GEO satellite to replace SXM-7, which has been declared a total loss following a payload anomaly detected a month after its launch. The order for the new SXM-9 has gone to US...
As mentioned in its Q2 2021 earnings call, Sirius XM has ordered a new GEO satellite to replace SXM-7, which has been declared a total loss following a payload anomaly detected a month after its launch. The order for the new SXM-9 has gone to US manufacturer Maxar...
China successfully launched a Long March 6 rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 1101 GMT on 4 August. The vehicle was carrying the KL-BETA-A and KL-BETA-B satellites which were built by the Shanghai Institute for Microsatellite Innovation of the...
After initial industry speculation later reports from the Chinese state-media and the company confirmed that a launch of a small rocket took place, but resulted in a failure. The rocket in question was a Hyperbola 1/SQX-1 small launch vehicle built by iSpace. This...
Following a gap of almost a year the European heavy-lift launcher Ariane 5 has launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The mission which lifted-off at 2100 GMT on 30 July, placed the Eutelsat Quantum and Star One D2 satellites into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)....
Following a troubled eight-day voyage the Nauka module has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the first Russian module to do so in 11 years. Docking occurred at 1329 GMT on 29 July, according to on-board telemetry. The module approached...
