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The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roskosmos was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz-FG at 0840 UTC on 11 October. Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with a booster and the ascent to orbit was aborted resulting in a…
The U.S. Air Force announced the award of three Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Launch Service Agreements to (in alphabetical order) Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK), and United Launch Alliance. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018101101
Maxar Technologies Ltd. announced that it is advancing its domestication into the United States and expects to complete this process in January 2019, subject to securityholder approval. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018101102
Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C/YZ-1S; Payload: two Yaogan-32 reconnaissance satellites (Yaogan Weixing-32 Group-1); Date: 10 October 2018, 0243 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China. Success of the launch was confirmed within 40 minutes by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018101000
Boeing announced its investment in Accion Systems Inc., a startup pioneering scalable electric propulsion technology to transform satellite capabilities in and beyond Earth’s orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018101001
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., a developer of orbital launch vehicles for the small to medium satellite market, announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with York Space Systems for the development of integrated launch services and spacecraft mission solutions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018101002
Japan’s ELSA-d satellite intended to demonstrate the project of capturing and removing space junk from orbit is expected to be launched aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket from the Baikonur spaceport in early 2020, the Glavkosmos Launch Services operator said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018100900
Thales Alenia Space has signed two study contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) in the frame of a joint ESA-NASA study on an international Mars Sample Return mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018100901
Lockheed Martin has selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete as potential mission payload providers for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) Block 0 missile warning satellite system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018100902
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: SAOCOM 1A; Date: 8 October 2018, 0222 UTC UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The satellite was deployed about 12 minutes after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018100800