Satellite News

India plans to launch its next generation GSLV rocket within a year, ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan said.

An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars’ upper atmosphere has been integrated into NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN has a scheduled launch date of 18 November.

Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC has moved into a purpose-built company headquarters and satellite manufacturing facility in Englewood, Colorado.

International Launch Services (ILS) and Intelsat S.A. have signed a contract for two firm ILS Proton launch missions.

Orbital Sciences Corp. provided Azerkosmos with complete control over Azerbaijan’s first national telecommunication satellite, Azerspace/Africasat-1a.

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited and GeoMetWatch Corp. announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership to host the first of six Sounding & Tracking Observatory for Regional Meteorology (STORM) instruments on board a new satellite planned to be launched by AsiaSat in 2016.

The French Council of Ministers has appointed Jean-Yves Le Gall President of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES).

Europe’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to service the International Space Station is entering its final preparation phase for a planned Ariane 5 launch this spring from French Guiana on Arianespace’s Flight VA213.