Satellite News

Arqiva and Intelsat have signed a multi-year renewal and expansion contract to distribute content to the French territories of the Caribbean.

Investigators detained the head of Taiwan’s National Space Organization (NSPO) amid allegations that funds were spent illegally in seeking to acquire the Argo remote sensing satellite from Canada.

EU transport ministers meeting next Thursday are expected to back in principle a proposal by the European Commission to use public funds to complete the construction of the Galileo satellite navigation system. But it is now emerging that EU countries disagree on how to fund the project.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed the critical milestone of bonding the Schmidt Corrector optic to its mounting ring for the Kepler Mission. Ball anticipates delivery of all Kepler optics by late-June.

NASA senior managers selected 8 June as the official launch date for space shuttle Atlantis.