Satellite News

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has issued an official reprimand to the head of Roskosmos after a series of embarrassing rocket launch failures.

Globalstar, Inc. announced that the company and its senior French lenders have signed a Global Deed of Amendment and Restatement providing for the amendment and restatement of Globalstar’s COFACE Facility Agreement and related loan documentation.

RigNet Inc., a provider of managed remote communications solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced the entering into a strategic deal with Inmarsat plc under which Inmarsat will sell its Energy Broadband business to RigNet and the appointment of RigNet to become a key distribution partner to deliver Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) and L-band services to the energy sector worldwide.

Inmarsat plc announced financial results for the six months ending 30 June 2013.

NASA has successfully completed the Space Launch System (SLS) preliminary design review.

Pre-launch checkout is now underway with Eutelsat 25B/Es’hail 1, which is one of two satellite passengers to be orbited on Arianespace’s fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission of 2013.

India’s advanced weather satellite INSAT-3D, launched in the early hours of 26 July 2013 from Kourou, French Guiana, has successfully been placed in geosynchronous orbit after three orbit raising manoeuvres commanded from ISRO’s Master Control Facility at Hassan.

Astrium has been awarded a contract by global satellite operator Telesat to build the latest addition to Telesat’s fleet of communications satellites. This satellite will use Astrium’s Eurostar E3000 platform.