Satellite News

Arabsat and Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has signed a strategic commercial agreement to utilise the new Badr-7 satellite currently under construction expected to be launched by the end 2015.

ESA and NASA have joined forces to ensure that Sentinel-2 and the newly launched Landsat Data Continuity Mission offer compatible data products. ESA is currently developing the two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.

Thales has been tasked by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) with extending the full-IP network that supports convergence between French armed forces’ theatre networks to the entire Syracuse military SATCOM ground segment.