Satellite News

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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.

NASA and its international partners are targeting 1 March as the launch date for the next cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

NASA has selected Aerojet of Sacramento, California, for a US$23.3 million contract to develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for future advanced boosters for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS).

The planned first stage propulsion system “hot fire” test of Orbital’s new Antares medium-class rocket on 13 February was halted in the final seconds of the countdown by the rocket’s flight computer, which detected an anomalous condition.