Satellite News

SES New Skies said it is teaming up with SeaMobile’s Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) product group for extensive field tests of new miniaturised VSAT antennas, which will enable an array of satellite-based communications services for small vessels.

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Program, has awarded an instrument contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on its own mobile communications satellite, GSAT-6/INSAT-4E.

The launch of the second Galileo test satellite, GIOVE-B, will reportedly be delayed by three months.

The planned Chinese space launch centre in Wenchang, Hainan Province, has finally been approved by the country’s government and military, state media reported.