Satellite News

North Korea on 31 August celebrated the tenth anniversary of what it claims was the launch of the first Kwangmyongsong (”Bright Star”) satellite aboard a Taepodong 1 rocket (which is pretty similar to the Safir 1 which recently did not launch an Iranian satellite).

SISLink, Europe’s largest supplier of satellite uplinks, has signed a new contract with Eutelsat Communications for a total of 4,000 hours of capacity in average 9-MHz slots on a range of Eutelsat satellites until 1 June 2009.

Saab’s divestment of Saab Space to the Swiss aerospace and defence group RUAG is now completed.

India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), an autonomous society under Department of Space (DOS), has been converted into a full-fledged government organisation called National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).