Satellite News

Laurier (Larry) Boisvert surprisingly resigned as head of the Canadian Space Agency only nine months after taking over the job. There is speculation the move could be related to the recently announced sale of MDA’s space business, which includes Radarsat 2, to ATK of the USA.

PBLSat, a provider of in occasional use satellite services, announced the confirmation of long-term contracts for capacity on two satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is in the midst of integration and testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the agency said.

KazSat 1, the first Kazakh communications satellite, suffered a glitch in its control system on 9 January, resulting in an outage of several hours.

Images sent by Japan’s ALOS “Daichi” satellite are “useless” for mapping purposes because of problems with the spacecraft, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.