Satellite News

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite — which began its mission in April — is now providing atmospheric scintillation forecast data.

Eutelsat has declared four transponders aboard its W5 satellite permanently lost while the organisation Reporters Without Borders claimed the technical problems with the spacecraft were a welcome opportunity to get rid of controversial Chinese-language broadcaster NTDTV.