![Orbital Wraps Up Second Paid ISS Mission for NASA, Eyes Rocket Upgrade for 3rd Cargo Run]()
Laden with 1,615 kilograms of trash from the international space station, Orbital Sciences Corp.’s uncrewed Cygnus space freighter completed a planned destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere Aug. 17, marking the end of the second of eight cargo delivery-and-disposal missions the Dulles, Virginia, company owes NASA under its $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract.
Hylas 4 will deliver up to 28 gigahertz of throughput to 66 fixed beams plus four steerable beams.
The two satellites are the Hylas 4 spacecraft to be built for Avanti Communications and the Al Yah 3 satellite for Yahsat.
![Orbital Sciences Books First GeoStar-3 Orders, Nears Antares Engine Decision]()
Orbital Sciences booked the first two orders for its higher-power telecommunications satellite product, the GeoStar-3, and that it had made a second bid to use its new Antares rocket for a commercial mission.
![Orbital Sciences Makes Second Paid Cargo Delivery to ISS]()
Making its second paid cargo run, Orbital's Cygnus spacecraft reached the international space station July 16.
![Orbital’s Second Paid Cargo Run to Station Slips to July 12]()
Despite the slip, the company’s Cygnus cargo capsule is still expected to berth with the space station the morning of July 15.
![Orbital Eyes Mid-July Launch For Next Station Cargo Run]()
The mission had been scheduled for May but was put on hold after an AJ-26 rocket engine slated for a subsequent Orbital cargo flight failed on the test stand.
![Earth Science and Climate Monitoring | Second Orbital Carbon Observatory Assigned Different Set of Questions]()
OCO-2 is not markedly different from OCO-1, but the questions the mission seeks to answer have changed dramatically.
The Intersputnik satellite telecommunications organization is negotiating with several satellite fleet operators on joint ventures using Intersputnik orbital slots and frequency reservations.
Orbital Sciences will launch its next cargo delivery mission to the international space station no earlier than June 17.
![KT Sat Picks Thales Alenia over Orbital Sciences for Two-satellite Order]()
The contracts come after a long dry spell for Thales Alenia Space in the geostationary-orbiting commercial satellite sector.
A Brazilian government auction of four satellite slots has garnered $67.6 million in winning bids.
![June 10 Launch Targeted for Orbital’s Next Cargo Run]()
Orbital’s next cargo mission to the ISS is scheduled to lift off from Wallops, June 10.
![Two Indonesian Satellites Call Dibs on the Same Orbital Slot]()
Both satellites are intended to operate from Indonesia’s 150.5 degrees east orbital slot.
![Orbital To Build, SpaceX To Launch, Thaicom 8]()
Thaicom is returning to the same contracting configuration that built and launched Thaicom 6.
