Satellite News

The companies behind European Satellite Navigation Industries (ESNIS) have reportedly given up hope that the joint venture, which was to act as Galileo prime contractor, could play any future role in the development of the troubled European satellite navigation project.

The second of three GLONASS-M navigation satellites, launched from Baikonur on 26 October, has become operational.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced that it has shipped a payload fairing for the H-IIA No.14 (H-IIA F14) launch vehicle to the Tanegashima Space Center.

Sea Launch said it was rescheduling the launch campaign for the Thuraya-3 satellite owing to unusually strong ocean currents at the launch site.

“The move was opposed by some member States which felt the cash would be better off being spent on giving French farmers subsidy money to stop them bringing their tractors into Paris, or very large EC sponsored lunches.” — The Inquirer on EU plans to use unspent agricultural and administrative funds for Galileo

The European Union’s troubled Galileo satellite navigation system will be financed from leftover EU funds, most of them originally earmarked for agriculture, finance ministers decided.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed qualification testing of the payload flight software for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite payload.

Essel Group’s Agrani Satellite Services Ltd plans to buy Ku-band transponders aboard the planned ProtoStar 1 satellite, Indiantelevision.com reports.