Satellite News

France’s Corot astronomy spacecraft was placed into polar orbit Dec. 27 by an enhanced Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket in a mission conducted jointly from Baikonur Cosmodrome…

The Russian government has placed three Glonass navigation satellites and a communications spacecraft into orbit in a pair of launches, according to press reports. A Proton rocket lofted three modernized Glonass-M satellites into orbit Dec. 26…

Empost, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) national courier company, is installing GPS units in more than 425 delivery vans and motorcycles as part of an advanced…

ViaSat Inc. has received a $4.6 million order from the Defense Communication and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS) for MD-1366 enhanced bandwidth efficient modems, which are used by the U.S. Department of…

Following a day’s delay, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Dec. 26 that a key receiving antenna on its Kiku-8 engineering test satellitehad been deployed, pushing completion of the mission’s critical phase to Dec. 27…

Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. was awarded a $50.7 million contract modification to begin work on the fifth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS), the U.S. Air Force announced Dec. 22…

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully deployed the two large deployable antenna reflectors (LDR) of the recently launched Engineering Test Satellite VIII, or Kiku No. 8.

Three Uragan satellites launched aboard a Proton K were successfully placed in their target orbit by the rocket’s Block-DM2 upper stage at 2350 UTC on 25 December.