Satellite News

Lockheed Martin has been named the Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year by NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. as part of the company’s effort to certify its Falcon 9 v1.1 Launch System for National Security Space (NSS) missions.

Progress-M-19M has successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) despite a malfunctioning antenna.

Progress-M-19M has successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) despite a malfunctioning antenna.

SSL was selected to provide a communications satellite to Sky Perfect JSAT. The satellite, JCSAT-14, will replace JCSAT-2A at 154 degrees East and expands on its capacity to meet the growing demand for telecommunications infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed the delivery of the payloads for the first four Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites of the European Galileo GNSS system to prime contractor OHB System AG.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the second of two payloads that will be hosted on U.S. government-owned satellites to bring next-generation protected, Extremely High Frequency (EHF) communications to users in the north polar region (above 65 degrees North latitude).

EMC Satcom Technologies announced its partnership with O3b Networks to engineer and deliver a signal processing technology, ‘MEO Booster ‘ designed to increase the performance and efficiency of satellite links. By increasing throughput, end-user customers receive a 50% higher performing link at a lower cost per bit.