Satellite operator KT SAT has ordered a communications satellite from Thales Alenia Space to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2024. The new spacecraft, Koreasat 6A, will replace KT SAT’s existing satellite, Koreasat 6. With six broadcasting satellite...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA at 0120 GMT on 11 September. The vehicle was carrying 34 SpaceX Starlink communications satellites (Group 4-2) to orbit. It also carried BlueWalker 3, a spacecraft designed...
An Ariane 5 ECA+ successfully launched a 6.4 metric ton communications satellite called EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS at 2145 GMT on flight VA258 on 7 September. The launch took place from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Thales Alenia Space built EUTELSAT...
The Norweigan government, through Space Norway, has ordered its first 300 kg MicroSAR satellite from British company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to start work on a radar satellite system for maritime surveillance. The order, announced by SSTL on 26 August,...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 0209 GMT on 5 August. Carried by the rocket were 51 Starlink satellites of Group 4-20 destined for the constellation’s “Shell 2” located at 540 km, inclined at 53.2 degrees. However, marking the...
The demand for small satellites experienced a mini-boom in August as demonstrated by a flurry of new orders. It started with Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT). The small satellite manufacturer announced on 9 August that it had been chosen to produce 18 CubeSats for...
