Satellite News

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. are in talks to launch a new satellite to boost bandwidth and replace their ST-1 spacecraft that is nearing the end of its service life.

ProtoStar announced that the ProtoStar I spacecraft has successfully completed in-orbit testing — and answered the question whose slot the spacecraft is using anyway.

At the end of a its six-month mission, Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle, undocked from the International Space Station today at 2129 hours UTC.

Rosetta’s control room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, received the first radio signal after closest approach to asteroid (2867) Steins at 2014 UTC, confirming a smooth fly-by.

NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for the two remaining space shuttle missions in 2008.

Intelsat announced multi-transponder contracts with a Romanian DTH provider and with a provider of Internet services over satellite.

Engineers from NASA and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed a series of hot-fire altitude tests using liquid methane on the RS-18 engine.

China will launch the first of eight satellites to monitor environment and natural disasters from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center this week, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).