MOSCOW, Feb 12 - RIA News. Another meteorological satellite Meteor-M will be launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome in 2021, a year later than the plan, due to the need for additional tests, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency told RIA Novosti.
MOSCOW, February 12. / TASS /. The launch of the South Korean KOMPSAT-6 Earth remote sensing satellite on the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle was postponed from 2020 to the end of 2021 due to the unavailability of the payload of the spacecraft. This was announced on Wednesday by the Director General of the Center. MV Khrunicheva (enterprise - manufacturer of Angara rockets) Alexey Varochko."With the South Korean launch to date, the production of the Angara-1.2 machine is in full swing, it is in the details, in units, the machine will be ready by 2021," said Varochko.
After two years of work, the creation of the AngoSat-2 satellite was transferred from RSC Energia to the ISS. The deadline is March 2022. Launch in the same year from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Proton-M launch vehicle (it remains to be understood with which booster block).
The first launch of the Gonets-M communication satellites on the Soyuz rocket to replenish the Gonets low-orbit system will be carried out in August-September 2020, the general director of the Gonets company Pavel Cherenkov told reporters."We assume that the deadlines are August-September this year," he said.According to him, along with the "messengers" will be launched an additional payload.
Momentus announced plans at the SmallSat Symposium here to deploy a SteamJet cubesat on its Vigoride demonstration mission scheduled to launch later this year on a Russian Soyuz rocket. SteamJet, a United Kingdom propulsion startup founded in 2017, builds water-fueled resistojet propulsion for small satellites and cubesats.
SteamJet’s 1.5-unit cubesat will be integrated into a deployer designed to fit multiple cubesats built by Innovative Solutions in Space of the Netherlands. The deployer will then be mounted on Momentus’ Vigoride transfer vehicle, Dawn Harms, Momentus chief revenue officer, said by email.
The first full-scale Vigoride test mission “Strait of Magellan” is planned for Q3 2020 on the Soyuz rocket.
The next launch of 34 British OneWeb communications satellites by Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for March 20-21, a source in the space and rocket industry told RIA Novosti."The delivery of a new batch of OneWeb satellites to the cosmodrome is expected on February 25, their launch on March 20-21," the agency’s source said.
MOSCOW, February 21. / TASS /. The Russian meteorological satellite "Meteor-M" No. 2-3 is scheduled to be launched in August 2021, Ilya Slobodskoy, representative of the VNIIEM Corporation (enterprise - developer and manufacturer of the device), said on Friday."The launch of [Meteor-M satellite No. 2-3] is expected in August 2021," Slobodskoy said at the 11th international conference of the Russian Association of Aviation and Space Insurers "Aviation and Space Insurance in Russia."According to him, the device will be launched from the Vostochny spaceport.
The launch of the next navigation satellite, Glonass-M, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for March 16, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
https://twitter.com/anik1982space/status/1230888179999399936Google translate:Quote3. The launch of Meteora-M No. 2-3 is planned for August 2021; 4. Launch of Resurs-P No. 4 according to a pessimistic scenario in November 2021, while optimistic - the supply of high-speed radio equipment in the summer in the first quarter of 2021;...
3. The launch of Meteora-M No. 2-3 is planned for August 2021; 4. Launch of Resurs-P No. 4 according to a pessimistic scenario in November 2021, while optimistic - the supply of high-speed radio equipment in the summer in the first quarter of 2021;...
SAT-STA-20200221-00016QuoteThis ODAR evaluates the Momentus initial demonstration mission, Vigoride-1 (“VR-1”), whichhas a planned launch on a Soyuz-2 rocket in August 2020. For the initial mission, VR-1 willhave the capacity to transport and deploy multiple payloads (individually, “Payload 1” and“Payload 2,” and together, the “Payloads”). Payload 1 is a 1.5U cubesat launched on behalf ofSteamjet Space Systems. Payload 2 is a Spire Inc. 3U Lemur-class cubesat.
This ODAR evaluates the Momentus initial demonstration mission, Vigoride-1 (“VR-1”), whichhas a planned launch on a Soyuz-2 rocket in August 2020. For the initial mission, VR-1 willhave the capacity to transport and deploy multiple payloads (individually, “Payload 1” and“Payload 2,” and together, the “Payloads”). Payload 1 is a 1.5U cubesat launched on behalf ofSteamjet Space Systems. Payload 2 is a Spire Inc. 3U Lemur-class cubesat.
MOSCOW, February 28 - RIA News. The next launch of 34 British OneWeb communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for the evening of March 21, follows from the materials available to RIA Novosti.Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti that the launch is scheduled for March 20-21. According to Glavkosmos, the satellites were delivered to the cosmodrome on February 25.The materials say that the export of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with satellites to the launch complex at the 31st Baikonur site is planned for March 18, and the launch on March 21 at 20.07 Moscow time.
“The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat booster block and the third Glonass-K satellite is planned in May,” the agency’s source said.
So, the first OneWeb launch from #Vostochny this year is now scheduled for late April. Hope there will be no more delays because of the satellites.
Missiles and booster blocks in assembly and test buildings #Восточный . The first launch of this year from this cosmodrome is the end of April.
