Two Compass Satellites Launched
September 19, 2012
News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. China successfully launched two BeiDou-2/Compass MEO satellites Tuesday at 19:10:04 UTC. The […]
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News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. China successfully launched two BeiDou-2/Compass MEO satellites Tuesday at 19:10:04 UTC. The […]
News courtesy of CANSPACE listserv. Launch dates this fall for GNSS satellites are as follows, according to […]
Next GPS IIF in October The next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65), scheduled to be launched on October […]
Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) is readied for the satellite’s fit check on the dispenser that will […]
India’s GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite — one of two passengers for Arianespace’s upcoming Ariane 5 mission in September — has been put through its paces during pre-flight preparations at the Spaceport in French Guiana, including a solar panel deployment test, according to Arianespace.
Luch-5B, the second of a set of three geostationary satellites being launched to reactivate Roscosmos’s Luch Multifunctional Space Relay System, has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It arrived together with the Yamal-300K satellite in a single shipping container aboard an Antanov An-124-100 Ruslan flight from Krasnoyarsk.
On July 9, Boeing shipped the third of 12 GPS IIF satellites for the U.S. Air Force from the company’s Satellite Development Center in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter. SVN-65 is scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket. It will join the first and second Boeing-built GPS IIF satellites, launched May 27, 2010, and July 16, 2011, to continue the sustainment and modernization of the GPS network.
The SES-5 geostationary communications satellite (also known as Sirius 5 and Astra 4B) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 9 at precisely 18:38:29.994 UTC. After a number of manoeuvres by the various rocket stages, the satellite was released from the Breeze-M upper stage into its geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 03:50:15.150 UTC on July 10.
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