Satellite News

Astrium is set to build the Mercury probe BepiColombo on behalf of the European Space Agency, ESA. ESA’s scientific programme decision-making body, the Science Programme Committee (SPC), agreed to award this order to Astrium following the decision of ESA’s Industrial Policy Committee in January this year.

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft executed a close flyby of Mars on 25 February, a key milestone in the 7.1-thousand-million km journey to its target comet.

NASA has selected Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International Inc.to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver engineering models of a turbine pump assembly for the Ares I upper stage thrust vector control subsystem.

The construction site of the Soyuz launch base in French Guiana was officially opened on 26 February by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Yannick d’Escatha, President of CNES, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Director General of Arianespace, and Anatoly Perminov, Head of Roskosmos.

Blue Sky Network, a logistics solution provider for two-way linking and managing transportation assets via satellite, announced the…

The European Technical Standards Institute (ETSI) has approved and published the SES SDR standard for satellite digital radio services in…

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc. has released two new software options that extend the ability of its…

Hughes Network Systems LLC and Sea Tel Inc., have completed interoperability testing on a VSAT…