Satellite News

O3b Networks Limited has signed a contract with Arianespace for the launch of O3b Network’s satellite constellation.

The flight of Arianespace’s initial Ariane 5 in 2010 has been postponed to allow for certain additional verifications on the launch vehicle.

The launch of the Prisma satellites aboard a Dnepr rocket has been further delayed, Swedish Space Corporation said.

Eutelsat Communications announced the successful completion of the UK-built communications module for its high-speed broadband communications satellite, KA-SAT.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that the Canadian Space Agency has authorised the company to start the design phase (Phase C) of the Radarsat Constellation Mission.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced that the fourth of five weather instruments that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has been successfully integrated.

SAT Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has been chosen by Argentina’s Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales (AR-SAT) to provide Satellite Monitoring and Interference Detection and Analysis System in support of its ARSAT-1 satellite and ground stations.

Intelsat S.A. announced an agreement with Turksat A.S. which will result in enhanced satellite capacity serving the Middle East region.