Satellite News

A top-level panel of the European Space Agency (ESA) is to meet in Paris this week to decide whether to beef up the ExoMars rover mission as requested by scientists.

On 18 May the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency’s Orbital Express team successfully captured the NextSat client spacecraft with the ASTRO servicing satellite, after a critical failure of ASTRO’s primary sensor flight computer (AC-2) on 11 May that had the two spacecraft drift apart.

Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (YahSat), United Arab Emirates, has selected a consortium of EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space as the preferred bidder to build a AED5 billion plus (EUR1.011 billion, US$1.362 billion) satellite communications system.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology plans to begin selling images collected by the Arirang-2 satellite to foreign countries through France’s Spot Image. Korea’s…

Eagle Broadband Inc. delivered a SatMax Alpha Emergency Communication System for use in a…

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting expanded its network into three Eastern European countries, the company announced May 18. Connections…

Orbcomm signed a deal with an unidentified American wireless carrier to begin offering terrestrial wireless services to complement its existing…

NASA’S Marshall Space Flight Center Director David King recently presented four contractor companies with the 2006 NASA Marshall Contractor Excellence Award.