Satellite News

The CYGNSS launch planned for Wednesday, 14 December was delayed one day due to an issue with flight parameter data used by spacecraft software.

Final integration has begun for Arianespace’s year-ending Ariane 5 mission as the Star One D1 and JCSAT-15 satellites are installed on the heavy-lift launcher for lift-off from the Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 December.

Thales Alenia Space Spain has delivered the second of three panels used to mount the Observation Data Communication Subsystem (ODCS) on GEO-KOMPSAT-2 satellites being built by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has chosen Thales Alenia Space to provide a key subassembly in the ground segment for the Eumetsat Polar System – Second Generation (EPS-SG), comprising data acquisition, processing and product generation for the polar-orbit meteorological satellites Metop SG-A et Metop SG-B.