Cygnus NG-13 (aka Robert H. Lawrence) was unberthed from the Unity Module on the International Space Station at 1300 GMT on 11 May using the space station’s robot arm. It was carrying away the HDEV experiment which had been earlier loaded (on 7 May) onto its...
At 1314 GMT on 17 May, an Atlas V 501 rocket lifted off from its pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the X-37/OTV-6 mission of the X-37B spaceplane. The flight, dubbed USSF-7, marked the first time that the X-37B was carried into space with a service module...
Earth observation satellite operator, Planet, has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of their six remaining Skysat satellites, Skysats 16-18 and Skysats 19-21. They will be launched as co-payloads as two separate batches on two Falcon 9 launches carrying...
China’s Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A)/Feitian 1 launch vehicle successfully launched the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Laser communications test satellites Xingyun 2-1 and Xingyun 2-2 into a Sun Synchronous low Earth orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0116...
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) has confirmed that it has turned off the Ka-band payload of the communications satellite Express AM-6 and transferred its clients to other satellites. The announcement also confirmed that the underlying cause was a...
The Argentinian satellite operator ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anónima) has resurrected plans to build a third GEO satellite for its fleet. The firm originally planned a third satellite to add to the two already operating, ARSAT 1 and...
