Satellite News

China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC), manufacturer of Nigeria’s NigComSat 1, has confirmed that the satellite suffered a power failure. The spacecraft’s future is uncertain.

India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface.

The Ciel II satellite has been delivered to the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and is ready to start its launch campaign for a Proton launch scheduled for the evening of 10 December.

Italian fixed telecommunications provider FASTWEB has signed an industrial agreement with Eutelsat Communications via its Skylogic broadband subsidiary that will allow FASTWEB to extend the coverage of broadband service through satellite connections.