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Vector Space Systems announces launch agreement with Iceye – Satellite News Digest

Vector Space Systems has finalised an agreement with Finnish-based Iceye to conduct 21 launches for Iceye’s commercial SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. The payload flights, Vector’s first customer flights since it started operations in early 2016, will be conducted over a four-year span as part of a larger partnership with Iceye. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016080201

First commercial Angara contract – Satellite News Digest

International Launch Services (ILS) announced the first commercial Angara 1.2 launch contract was signed recently with Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for the launch of the Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (Arirang) 6 also known as the KOMPSAT-6 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northwestern Russia around 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016080100