Satellite News

A total of 14 babies have been named Chang’e in honour of China’s first lunar satellite, the country’s official government website reported.

SES Astra has signed its third large framework contract to market its high speed Internet access product Astra2Connect to consumers in Germany.

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R) Program, has selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to build the Geostationary Lightning Mapper.

Arianespace has decided to postpone the launch of the Ariane 5 GS for 24 hours in order to perform additional checks on the launch vehicle. The rocket is to launch RASCOM-QAF1, built by Thales Alenia Space for RascomStar-QAF, and Horizons-2, built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for Horizons 2 Satellite LLC.

Arianespace is in talks to order an additional 10-15 Soyuz rockets, chief executive Jean-Yves Le Gall told Financial Times Deutschland in an interview.

NASA said it is focusing on the connectors linking fuel gauges in the liquid hydrogen tank to the exterior as the likely cause of erroneous sensor readings.