Satellite News

The second satellite for Arianespace’s initial heavy-lift Ariane 5 flight of 2007 has arrived at the Spaceport in French Guiana…

BSkyB has reached a two-year agreement with the Rugby Football League (RFL) to screen live National League One and Two rugby leagues…

SES Americom’s AMC-18 satellite completed in-orbit tests and has begun operations, the company announced…

NASA signed Space Act agreements with PlanetSpace Inc. and Transformational Space Corp. to support the companies’ development of commercial systems…

SpaceDev has completed a series of three hot-fire tests of its hybrid upper stage motor, the company announced Feb. 1. The tests, conducted at the…

A report by U.S. news agency UPI over the weekend claimed that “U.S. and Russian officials changed the International Space Station’s orbit to keep it clear of debris from a satellite destroyed by China.” This has turned out to be completely untrue. — In related news, the number of fragments stemming from the Chinese ASAT test is still rising and may reach a record number.

Spacehab, Incorporated said that its Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) subsidiary is responding to a NASA Request for Proposal (RFP) soliciting payload processing capabilities for expendable launch vehicles from the Western Range in California, USA.

The U.S. Air Force plans to replace the command-and-control system for GPS without any loss of service to military or civil users this summer.