Roscosmos says the Angara mission from the Plesetsk launch site in northern Russia successfully placed the Kosmos-2577 and Kosmos-2578 spacecraft into orbit.
The SAR emission detector effort began trying to detect C-band and X-band synthetic aperture signals, says Col. Ludovic Monnerat of the Swiss Armed Forces.
The demonstration—Toutatis—will comprise the Lisa-1 space situational awareness satellite and the Splinter LEO action satellite to deal with suspicious activities.
The Space Development Agency’s first operational satellites are scheduled to launch early next year due to supply chain issues that prevented a 2024 launch.
The CEO of SES Global says the satellite operator has secured a multi-year deal to provide NATO access to its medium Earth orbit satellite constellation.
The EU says it has received one bid from the SpaceRISE consortium—SAS, Eutelsat and Hispasat—to develop and deploy the sovereign satcom constellation IRIS2.
