Satellite News

The second Angara-A5 rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in December, a source in the space rocket industry was quoted as saying by TASS.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that it was selected to provide a high power communications satellite for Intelsat S.A.

ISS-Reshetnev company won a contract from the national satellite fleet operator Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) to design and manufacture two communications and broadcasting satellites.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered the 22nd Galileo navigation payload, the last under Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) Works Orders 1 & 2, to prime contractor OHB System in Bremen, Germany.

A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analysing data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, scientists have observed how this explosive physical process converts stored magnetic energy into kinetic energy and heat.