Satellite News

MSG-3 has passed its final System Verification Test (SVT), prior to launch this summer.

SES S.A. announced that the AMC-3 satellite is being relocated from its former location of 87 degrees West to 67 degrees West to optimise coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are developing an optical observation system with a powerful laser, the pulses from which can detect particles only a few centimetres in diameter and allow determination of their orbits. The concept was tested for the first time in January 2012, in collaboration with the Laser Station in the Austrian city of Graz.

The Swiss Space Center at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) announced the launch of CleanSpace One, a project to develop and build the first instalment of a family of satellites specially designed to clean up space debris.

Yesterday’s successful maiden flight of ESA’s new Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, opens a new set of launch services – including two of the Sentinel satellites for GMES.
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Telesat said that ViaSat-1, a powerful Ka -band satellite which is significantly expanding the quality and availability of high speed broadband for rural Canadians, has begun commercial service .
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that it has signed an agreement with O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new high-speed, low-latency satellite-based service for telecommunication operators and enterprises in emerging markets, for the development and supply of Ka-band infrastructure for O3b’s VSAT services.
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