Satellite News

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and the University of Surrey have succeeded for the first time in capturing a Galileo signal reflected off the ocean surface in orbit, demonstrating the potential for determining the weather at sea with remote sensing satellites.

One of the three GLONASS-M navigation satellites launched from Baikonur on 26 October has been put into operation.

DigitalGlobe announced that WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning, meets all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView programme.

A joint team of NPO PM and Thales Alenia Space has started electrical testing of the Ekspress-AM33 satellite being developed under the contract of Roskosmos, the Russian information and communications ministry and Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).

The weather-induced delay of the launch of Thuraya 3 aboard a Zenit 3SL is approaching two weeks after another attempt was scrubbed on 25 November.

The European Commission confirmed reports it had proposed a new tendering process for its Galileo satellite navigation system which would prevent any one company from having a dominant share of the work.

Inmarsat has officially awarded a contract to Astrium for the Alphasat I-XL satellite to augment its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service.

An attempt to launch a Zenit 3SL rocket with the Thuraya 3 communications satellite on board will be made on 25 November from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, Sea Launch said.