Satellite News

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Herschel, Planck; Date: 14 April 2009, 1312 UTC; Site: Kourou, French Guiana. Almost 26 minutes later, and about two minutes from each other, the two science satellites were released separately on an escape trajectory toward L2, some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth in the opposite direction to the Sun.

Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to deliver its new satellite for 7 degrees West called Atlantic Bird 7.

Mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel completed STS-125’s first spacewalk today at 2012 UTC.

Solaris Mobile, the joint venture set up by Eutelsat and SES Astra, announced that in the course of carrying out tests on its S-band satellite capacity aboard Eutelsat W2A, an anomaly has been detected in its performance.

The European Commission announced that Inmarsat Ventures and Solaris Mobile were chosen to provide mobile satellite services (MSS) across Europe in the S-Band.

Eutelsat Communications reported revenues for the third quarter ending 31 March 2009 and announced satellite redeployment plans.

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