Satellite News

Datacom Wireless Corp. completed its acquisition of Vigil Locating Systems Technologies Inc. after securing approval from regulatory authorities and shareholders of both companies, Datacom announced. Datacom, which designs, develops and markets…

The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Systems Wing passed the initial integrated system test on the first GPS Block 2F satellite Aug. 27, the Air Force announced. The test confirms that each major subsystem, electrical power system, attitude…

Rocket segments for the Zenit-3SL system arrived at Sea Launch’s in preparation for the launch of the Thuraya 3 satellite in October as well as planned…

India placed the Insat-4CR satellite into orbit Sept. 2 in the first mission since the July 2006 failure of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, the…

Globalstar awarded a contract to Arianespace for the launch of Globalstar’s second-generation constellation using Soyuz rockets, Arianespace announced…

The Russian multi-role data-relay system Luch is expected to be fully deployed by 2015, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, the deputy head of the space equipment security department at the Defense Ministry’s fourth research institute, said.

Up to 10 launches are due to be carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome before the end of this year, Interfax reported.

The first orbit raising manoeuvre of ISRO’s latest satellite, INSAT-4CR, was successfully carried out. Latest reports suggest that the launch was more dramatic than previously known.