Satellite News

Nepal has formed a committee to study the feasibility of launching its first satellite to an orbital slot provided by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) decades ago.

Brazilian telecommunications company Telebras has selected three firms to participate in a tender to build a new dual-use communications satellite.

Astrium Americas announced that its subsidiary, Astrium Services Government, Inc., will offer UAE-owned Yahsat Military Ka-band service to the U.S. government.

The second Vega flight, due on 4 May (UTC) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, has been postponed. The countdown was proceeding normally until it was halted 30 minutes before the planned lift-off owing to unfavourable weather conditions in the upper atmosphere.

ITT Exelis has been awarded a contract by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide specialised antennas for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) programme.

Ensuring the early interoperability of Europe’s satellite navigation with GPS, the four Galileo satellites have begun broadcasting the ‘offset’ between the parallel navigation systems’ timings, accurate to a few billionths of a second.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is no longer in standby automode and has resumed normal operations.

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