Satellite News

Nigeria has started work on the design and construction of its second Earth observation satellite, the Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency Robert Boroffice said.

New dates have been announced for the launches of DirecTV 9S, Optus D1 and LDREX-2 as well as for Japan’s SOLAR-B probe.

Lockheed Martin has entered into an agreement with Bigelow Aerospace to pursue the potential of launching passengers on human-qualified Atlas V rockets. The destination would be a Bigelow-built space complex assembled from expandable modules.

Intelsat announced that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33 degrees East, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly on 22 September 2006 at approximately 0027 UTC.