Satellite News

Airbus Defence and Space has signed the first contract for the fully reconfigurable Quantum satellite with Eutelsat and the European Space Agency (ESA). The Quantum satellite will be operated and commercialised by Eutelsat and will be able to adapt to new demands in coverage, bandwidth, power, frequency configurability and even change its orbital position.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed the first part of a contract with Airbus Defense and Space to supply Poseidon-4 spaceborne radar altimeters.

An instrument that will explore the surface of a primitive asteroid (Bennu) in search of water and organic materials has arrived at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver for installation onto NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx).

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company said it has completed testing of a model of a primary mirror intended for the space observatory Millimetron.