Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-20; Date: 15 December 2010, 1909 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Following the successful launch, the crew is preparing their craft for orbital operations.

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales SA, ARSAT, to supply the payload for the second Argentine geostationary telecom satellite ARSAT-2, a part of the SSGAT programme (Sistema Satelital Geoestacionario Argentino de Telecomunicaciones).

Avanti said that excellent progress had been made following the launch of the company’s HYLAS 1.

During a regularly scheduled contact with the Kepler spacecraft on 13 December 2010, the project team discovered Kepler had experienced an anomaly. Kepler was found in coarse point attitude, as opposed to finepoint.

The Lockheed Martin A2100 commercial communications satellite fleet has achieved a total of 300 years of successful in-orbit operations.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States announced it has approved a US$171.5 million direct loan to support the export of a Ku-band broadcast satellite by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to SES S.A.

SES Astra said it has won CME as anchor customer for its 31.5 degrees East orbital position.

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