ViviSat – Spaceflight Now

December 4, 2022

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[ November 29, 2022 ] Japanese commercial moon lander, UAE rover ready for launch on SpaceX rocket Falcon 9

Orbital ATK books Proton rocket for first commercial satellite servicing mission

October 14, 2016

Armed with capital and an anchor customer for a trailblazing satellite life extension service, Orbital ATK has signed a contract to loft its first robotic servicing tug aboard a Russian Proton rocket in 2018 on a shared launch with a Eutelsat communications satellite.