Satellite News

The Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s upcoming mission at the service of Intelsat is now complete following integration of the Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 36 satellites – readying the launch vehicle for lift-off on 24 August from French Guiana.

Vector Space Systems, a micro satellite space launch company, announced it has finalised the acquisition of Garvey Spacecraft Corporation. As part of the acquisition, Garvey Spacecraft Corporation Founder and CEO John Garvey joins Vector Space Systems as Chief Technology Officer.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) late last month decommissioned GOES-3, a 38-year-old satellite that for 21 years had helped to link NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the outside world. It was among the oldest, continuously operating satellites in the skies.

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite has shed some pieces of debris in orbit but continues to function.

According to Euroconsult’s latest report, Prospects for the Small Satellite Market, more than 3,600 smallsats are expected to be launched over the next ten years, a significant increase from the previous decade.

Airbus Defence and Space has won its third contract in 18 months for its latest GaN SSPAs, bringing the total ordered to more than 350.

The engineers and scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission are preparing the newly arrived Jupiter orbiter for operations around the largest planetary inhabitant in the solar system.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company has completed testing service subsystems of the geodetic satellite GEO-IK-2.