Satellite News

Ingosstrakh, the company that insured the launch of Ekspress AM4, said it would pay satellite operator RSCC the claimed indemnity by the end of 2011.

A Russian independent commission has established the reasons behind the loss of South Korea’s KSLV-1 launch vehicle in 2010, Nikolai Panichkin, first deputy general director of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMASH), was quoted as saying.

The launch of Arabsat 5C and SES 2 aboard an Ariane 5 ECA will be delayed a few days.

Orbital Sciences Corporation has received a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme demonstration mission in early 2012.

NASA’s next Earth-observing research satellite, NPP, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to begin preparations for an October launch.

NASA has selected Orbital Science Corporation to build the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft.

Hughes Communications, Inc., through its subsidiary HNS Americas Comunicacoes Ltda., announced that it has been declared the winner of two orbital slots in the auction conducted on 30 August by ANATEL, the Brazilian communications regulatory authority.

APT Satellite Holdings Limited (together with its subsidiaries) announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2011.