"1st BRIC summit The inaugural BRIC summit took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia on June 16, 2009. The four heads of government from the BRIC countries attended. The acronym BRIC (for Brazil, Russia, India, China) was first used in a Goldman Sachs thesis projecting that the economic potential of Brazil, Russia, India and China is such that they may become among the five most dominant economies by the year 2050. Today, the four countries produce about 15 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and hold about 40 percent of the gold and hard currency reserves. Political dialogue between the BRIC"
"Astrosat was successfully launched on 28 September 2015 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on board a PSLV-XL vehicle at 10:00AM. Astrosat is a proposal-driven general purpose observatory, with main scientific focus on: Astrosat performs multi-wavelength observations covering spectral bands from radio, optical, IR, UV, and X-ray wavelengths. Both individual studies of specific sources of interest and surveys are undertaken. While radio, optical, and IR observations would be coordinated through ground-based telescopes, the high energy regions, i.e., UV, X-ray and visible wavelength, would be covered by the dedicated satellite-borne instrumentation of Astrosat. The mission would also study near simultaneous multi-wavelength"
"designed by Airbus Safran Launchers. Since 2010, France and Russia have been collaborating on several space missions, including long-run science programmes like Cardiomed, dedicated to monitoring cardiovascular health in cosmonauts. CNES has provided essential instruments (cameras) on an Indian mission to the moon, launched in January 2018. A consortium led by the CNES also built Argos instruments on board the Indian mission Oceansat 3 in 2018. A third collaboration between the ISRO and French space actors (Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique (Lesia), CNRS, Université Paris-VI and Université Paris-VII) has seen the launch of PicSat in January 2018, a"
"was conducted from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 19:47 GMT on 11 August 2009. The Briz-M separated from the Proton-M nine minutes and forty one seconds into the flight, and AsiaSat 5 will separate from the Briz-M into a geosynchronous transfer orbit nine hours and fifteen minutes after liftoff. It will then raise itself into its final geostationary orbit. The launch was originally scheduled to be conducted by Land Launch, using a Zenit-3SLB carrier rocket. The satellite was subsequently re-awarded to ILS after Land Launch were unable to guarantee that the satellite could be launched by"
"partnership with Roscosmos, is developing a new high-resolution ERS satellite, the so-called “flying telescope”, which will be placed into orbit in 2015. Having ample infrastructure and qualified personnel at its disposal, Russia remains the main provider of ERS services to other CIS countries like Belarus. A Belarusian ERS satellite is being designed in partnership with Russian companies. It will be launched by Cosmotrans from Baikonur using Dnepr boosters. Negotiations were held between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Roscosmos over Belarus joining GLONASS. In Belarus, space activities were the domain of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus."
"started in 2012. The spacecraft was originally supposed to be launched along the Energia 100 satellite on a Zenit-3SL with SeaLaunch in 2016, but political tensions following the annexation of Crimea and SeaLaunch legal issues made the use of the Ukrainian launcher uncertain. Consequently, the launch was first moved to an Angara A5 / Blok DM-03 configuration, and finally back to a Zenit-3F version which was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 26 December 2017, 19:00 UTC. The satellite was financed by Rosoboronexport with a 286.2 million euro loan. AngoSat 1 is based on RKK Energiya's USP Bus of Gazprom Space"
"""country"" listing denotes the country that constructed the satellite and not the launching country. AMSAT-NA is currently building a series of 1U CubeSats to carry university experiments, including a camera, and mode U/V FM repeaters. The first two of these satellites, Fox-1A, and Fox-1B, were launched on 8 October 2015 and 18 November 2017 respectively and are currently operational and available for use. Fox-1D (AO-92) was launched on 12 January 2018 on the PSLV-C40 mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Fox-1Cliff was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard the SpaceX Falcon-9 SSO-A rocket on 2018-12-03. These"
"Mir space station. In 2011 the government announced plans to reboot the space program by producing a new microsatellite and joining the European Space Agency. From June 2017, Bulgaria will have its first geostationary communications satellite. BulgariaSat-1 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by Bulgaria Sat and manufactured by SSL, based on the space-proven SSL 1300 satellite platform. BulgariaSat-1 is the first in the history of the country geostationary communications satellite at the Bulgarian orbital position and it is designed to provide Direct-to-Home (DTH) television service and data communications services to the Balkans and other European regions. In this way,"
"payload was a gravity-gradient boom that extended a tip mass 1.5 meters from the satellite. This 3U Colony-1 Cubesat was designed to provide a Linux-based file server in space operating on S-Band. It launched on the ULTRA mission in spring 2015. Communications were never established with the satellite. BRICSat-1 is a 1.5 U Cubesat with a primary payload of micro-arch thrusters built by George Washington University to experiment with attitude control. It was launched on the ULTRA mission in the spring of 2015 and is still active. BRICSat-1 also continues support of the Amateur radio operators via a PSK-31 multi-user"
"the geospace environment. It was launched into orbit on June 27, 2009, at 22:51 GMT from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. On January 30, 2009, the Russian Federal Space Agency successfully launched the Koronas-Foton which carries several experiments to detect X-rays, including the TESIS telescope/spectrometer FIAN with SphinX soft X-ray spectrophotometer. ISRO launched the multi-wavelength space observatory Astrosat in 2015. One of the unique features of ASTROSAT mission is that it enables the simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of various astronomical objects with a single satellite. ASTROSAT observes universe in the optical, Ultraviolet, low and high"
"3A, are at 90% occupied. The Turkish Armed Forces will have dedicated channels on the Turksat 4B for use in guidance of it SATCOM equipped Anka-S UCAV systems. The spacecraft was launched by the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle on October 16, 2015 at 20:40:00 from Baikonur Cosmodrome Pad 39 in Kazakhstan. After successfully completing the testing process, the satellite was placed on its final orbit on October 24, 2015. Türksat 4B provides expansion of K band's 3-Gbps data transfer capacity at the at spot coverage areas thru its 1,800 MHz"
"CubeSat designed and manufactured by Emirati engineers, which was originally scheduled for launch in 2016, but delayed waiting for an appropriate SpaceX launch platform to be scheduled. The satellite was launched in February 2017 on the Indian Space Research Organisation PSLV-C37 launch vehicle, which established a world record by launching 104 satellites, the largest number of satellites deployed by a single launcher. The name of the satellite is derived from the Arabic noun, which means ‘one that soars high above’ or ‘one that is morally and intellectually superior.’ For the Nayif-1 project, MBRSC established a partnership with the American University"
"Mongolia, and Nigeria. Five countries built identical satellites: Bangladesh (""BRAC Onnesha""), Japan (""TOKI""), Mongolia (""Mazaalai""), Ghana (""GhanaSat-1""), and Nigeria (""Nigeria EduSat-1""). Each satellite cost about to manufacture and launch. The satellites are cubes in the 1U CubeSat class, weighing around each. Power is generated from solar cells and stored in batteries. It carries 0.3 megapixel and 5 megapixel cameras to image the Earth. The constellation can also transmit music and other sounds back to Earth. The satellites also contain provisions to measure the effects of solar radiation on commercial microprocessors and can measure air density. SpaceX launched the constellation on"
"aboard a Zenit-3SLB. On November 4, 2015, JSAT and Intelsat made a joined statement that they would add a new member to their Horizons joint venture. The satellite, called Horizons 3e, would be based on the Intelsat Epic platform, featuring an optimized C band and high throughput K band payload it would offer mobility and broadband connectivity services in the Asia-Pacific region. It was expected to use the 169°East orbital slot and launch by the second half of 2018. This would be the fourth joint satellite, along the other two Horizons Satellite spacecrafts, Horizons-1 and Horizons-2 and the separately co-owned"
"spacecraft were secondary payloads on the rocket, whose primary mission was to deploy the Franco-Indian SARAL ocean research satellite. Canada's Sapphire and NEOSSat-1 spacecraft, and the United Kingdom's STRaND-1, were also carried by the same rocket under separate launch contracts. The launch took place at 12:31 UTC on 25 February 2013, and the rocket deployed all of its payloads successfully. TUGSAT-1 TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme. TUGSAT-1 was manufactured by the"
"CubeSat that was launched on 9 December 2016 aboard the HTV-6 cargo resupply spacecraft, and was deployed from the International Space Station at 18:20 UTC on 6 March 2017. It was the first satellite in the TechEdSat program to include a modulated Exo-Brake that was could adjust the amount of atmospheric drag on the spacecraft, enabling a targeted re-entry. The TechEdSat-5 Exo-Brake was cross-shaped, made of mylar, and used a combination of mechanical struts and flexible cords. Its surface area was approximately 0.35 square metres. A ‘Cricket’ Wireless Sensor Module (WSM) was included with TechEdSat-5. The satellite reentered the atmosphere"
"from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The NLS spacecraft were secondary payloads on the rocket, whose primary mission was to deploy the Indo-French SARAL ocean research satellite. Canada's Sapphire and NEOSSat-1 spacecraft, and the United Kingdom's STRaND-1, were also carried by the same rocket under separate launch contracts. The launch took place at 12:31 UTC on 25 February 2013, and the rocket deployed all of its payloads successfully. UniBRITE-1 UniBRITE-1 is, along with TUGSAT-1, one of the first two Austrian satellites to be launched. Along with TUGSAT, it operates as part of the BRIght Target"
"expected launch date was the second half of 2015. On April, 2014, SSL announced that it had been awarded a contract by JSAT to manufacture two satellites: JCSAT-15, a 10-kW satellite to replace N-SAT-110 plus expansion capability, and JCSAT-16, an 8.5-kW satellite with K band and K band payload to be used as a backup to the existing fleet. On September 8, Arianespace announced that it had signed a launch service contract for the launch of JCSAT-15 aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket. And on September 10, 2014, JSAT announced that it had signed a second launch service contract with"
"at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology, a program intended to help universities in non-spacefaring countries get satellites into space. The Birds-1 constellation also included satellites from Japan, Ghana, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Over a two-year period, three university students from each of the five participating countries learned skills to build, develop, launch and operate the satellites. All five satellites were identical to each other. The satellites from Ghana (""GhanaSat-1"") and Bangladesh (""BRAC Onnesha"") were the first satellites in space for those countries. ""MongolSat-1"", which was launched in early 2017, is sometimes reported as Mongolia's first satellite, but that satellite was in"
"and Milena named after European children who had previously won a drawing contest. On 23 August 2014, launch service provider Arianespace announced that the flight VS09 experienced anomaly and satellites were injected into an incorrect orbit. Satellites GSAT-203 and GSAT-204 were launched successfully on 27 March 2015 from Guiana Space Centre using a Soyuz four stage launcher. Using the same Soyuz launcher and launchpad, satellites GSAT-205 (Alba) and GSAT-206 (Oriana) were launched successfully on 11 September 2015. Satellites GSAT-208 (Liene) and GSAT-209 (Andriana) were successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, using the Soyuz launcher on December 17, 2015. Satellites GSAT-210"
"new spacecrafts. They were expected to be launched by the Land Launch service, which used Zenit-3SLB rockets from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, during 2009. Between October 27 and November 5, 2009 Intelsat 15 was processed in the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On November 6, it was filled with propellant. On November 24, 2009, JSAT announced that the launch of Intelsat 15 was expected on November 29 at 1:00 UTC. But during the launch attempt on November 29, the automatic prelaunch issued an abort command. But the launch committee agreed to make a second attempt on the next day. On November 30,"
"2009, at 21:00 UTC, the Zenit-3SLB successfully launched Intelsat 15, from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 45. After a six and a half our mission, the DM-3SLB successfully separated the spacecraft and at 03:28 UTC, first signals from spacecraft were received. The launch put the satellite with margins of its planned geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 10,286 km, an apogee of 35,790 km and a 12° inclination to the Equator. Intelsat 15 Intelsat 15, also known as IS-15, is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat. Intelsat 15 was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, on a Star-2.4. It is located at"
"and Taiwan. Bangladesh's ground station, inaugurated 25 May 2017, is on the top of a building at BRAC University. ""BRAC Onnesha"" is a nanosatellite shaped as a cube capable of completing one orbit above the ground in 90 minutes and passing over Bangladesh four to six times a day. The primary objective of the satellite is to image vegetation, urbanization, flood, water resources, and forestry. BRAC Onnesha BRAC Onnesha is the first nanosatellite built in Bangladesh to be launched into space. The satellite was designed and built in conjunction with Kyushu Institute of Technology Birds-1 program, which has the goal"
"on 29 June 2018 via the Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida, United States as part of the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Service mission. Maya-1 and BHUTAN-1, which were also developed under the Birds-2 project, were among the payload of the rocket. All three nanosatellites were deployed from the ISS and achieved orbit on 10 August 2018. UiTMSAT-1 UiTMSAT-1 is a Malaysian nanosatellite, built primarily by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) as part of the multi-nation Birds-2 project. The 1U CubeSat was launched into space in June 2018 and deployed from the ISS in August. Planning for"
"KhalifaSat KhalifaSat is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite manufactured in the United Arab Emirates at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC). It was the first satellite to be built in the clean rooms of the Dubai government’s space science and research facility and the first to be developed entirely by a team of Emirati engineers. It launched into orbit on 29 October 2018 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre is a Dubai government based space centre working on the National Space programme. MBRSC already has two Earth observation satellites in orbit, DubaiSat-1 and"
"on 23 June 2017 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. The Falcon 9 first stage B1029 used to launch the spacecraft was previously flown for an Iridium NEXT mission in January 2017. This booster successfully landed on the SpaceX drone ship ""Of Course I Still Love You"" after completing its BulgariaSat-1 flight. In mid-July 2017, Bulgaria Sat stated that during its intensive preparations for commercial operations on the satellite, all systems of BulgariaSat-1 were functioning normally. By the time of launch, the satellite had been targeted to be operational in early August 2017 but this was pushed back to"
"2015, the firm raised $95 million in funding. As of May 2015, Planet Labs raised a total amount of $183 million in venture capital financing. In July 2015, Planet Labs acquired BlackBridge and its RapidEye constellation. On April 18, 2017, Google completed the sale of Terra Bella and its SkySat satellite constellation to Planet Labs. As part of the sale, Google acquired an equity stake in Planet and entered into a multi-year agreement to purchase SkySat imaging data. On January 21, 2018, a ""Dove Pioneer"" CubeSat was part of the payload of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, the first orbital-entry"
"aerospace program on a small scale. The mission and its requirements are designed to reflect various aspects of real world missions including telemetry requirements, communications, and autonomous operations. Each team is scored throughout the challenge on real world deliverables such as schedules, design reviews, and demonstration flights. The event was on mid of August 2015 to the launch on 17 January 2016 at Hoskote, it was organised by Applied Research Development Laboratories and hosted by Indian Institute Science, Bangalore.The panelists who judged the event were eminent scientists of ISRO. Team NIT Surat Emerged Victorious after the Post Flight briefings. Türksat"
"licensed orbital slot at 74°West. It would carry 20 Ku band transponders, generate 3.5 kW of power, weight around and was expected to be launched in 2007. The late 2005 take over of PanAmSat by Intelsat, did not diminished the relationship and, in fact, strengthened the alliance. On December 21, 2007, Horizons Satellite used an Ariane 5 rocket to launch Horizons-2. And, outside of the Horizons Satellite, JCSAT and Intelsat launched the joint satellite Intelsat 15/JCSAT-85 on November 30, 2009 aboard a Zenit-3SLB. On November 4, 2015, JSAT and Intelsat made a joined statement that they would add a new"
"tray, being all the other equipment and experiments located inside the satellite. The Nanosat-1B covers all the earth due to his polar orbit and it stores scientific data which are unloaded when the satellite passes the Control Centre vertical (located at INTA, Torrejón, Madrid) and the mobile stations (Nano-Terminals). This satellite was launched on 29Th of July 2009 at 18:46 h. UTC from de “Cosmodromo” in Baikonur (Kazajistan), launch pad 95 area 109, by a Dnepr rocket along with other five satellites : the DubaiSat-1 (this one being the main load), Deimos-1, UK-DMC 2, Aprizesat-3 and Aprizesat-4. ""Three Experiments:"" ""Two"
"the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket. 2015 in spaceflight In 2015, the maiden spaceflights of the Chinese Long March 6 and Long March 11 launch vehicles took place. In February 2015, the European Space Agency's experimental lifting body spacecraft, the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, successfully conducted its first test flight. In March 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be"
"EcAMSat EcAMSat, or E. coli Anti Microbial Satellite, is NASA's first 6U CubeSat, developed to investigate the effects of microgravity on the antibiotic resistance of E. coli. The spacecraft was launched aboard an Orbital ATK Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility on 12 November 2017, and was deployed from the International Space Station on 20 November 2017. During the development of the PharmaSat spacecraft, two identical flight units were built and brought to the launch site, with the FLT-2 unit being the one ultimately launched as ""PharmaSat"". The FLT-1 unit sat in storage, and was later put to use as"
"UBAKUSAT UBAKUSAT is a Turkish nanosatellite that was developed by Istanbul Technical University. It was launched into space onboard a Falcon-9 rocket in April 2018 and was deployed into its orbit from the International Space Station in May 2018. It was built as a technology demonstration and earth observation satellite to provide voice communications for amateur radio stations around the world. It carries an experimental card, TAMSAT Simplesat, which is allowing scientists to test its accuracy of measuring radiation from space. It is the second satellite to be built by students of Istanbul Technical University. The contractual agreement covering the"