A Soyuz ST-B with a Fregat M upper stage successfully launched OneWeb 0006-0012 satellites at 2137 GMT on 27 February. The launch took place from the Sinnamary Launch Centre, near Kourou in French Guiana. The satellites will form part of the OneWeb constellation which...
In what is becoming a habit, NASA has been forced to admit that its plan to have crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and the Boeing CST-100 Starliner...
NASA has selected the SPHEREx astronomy mission to progress to operational status as a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) type mission. SPHEREx – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer – will conduct...
Red Eléctrica Corporación SA (REC) announced on 12 February that it had reached a deal with Hispasat’s majority shareholder, Abertis Infraestructuras SA (Abertis), to purchase its 89.68 per cent stake for EUR€949m (US$1.07bn). REC is a public limited company with...
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been “unberthed” from the Unity module using the International Space Station’s robot arm, it was released at 1616...
While Viasat 3-1 (Viasat-3 Americas) and Viasat 3-2 (Viasat-3 EMEA) High Throughput Satellites (HTS) have their construction well underway and are planned for launches in 2021, there was a missing third member of the GEO triumvirate: Viasat 3-3 (Viasat-3...
