Satellite News

Thales Alenia Space announced the signature of a contract with Telespazio worth more than EUR120 million, within the scope of a contract for the supply of EGNOS services (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), signed by ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider) and Telespazio in July 2013.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Telesat to provide launch services for Telesat’s new Telstar 12 VANTAGE (Telstar 12V) satellite. The launch is scheduled to take place in late 2015 and marks the first time MHI has received an order to launch a commercial satellite.

Following the State Review Board’s decision, the roll out of the Proton M/Astra 2E integrated launch vehicle took place on 26 September. The launcher was erected on its launch pad.

Russia is planning to launch a light-class Rokot rocket with ESA’s three Swarm satellites aboard on 14 November at 1203 UTC.

The crewed Soyuz TMA-10 vessel has docked with the ISS as planned. Approach to the International Space Station (ISS), its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed normally, in automatic mode.

Rocket: Kuaizhou; Payload: Kuaizhou 1; Date: 25 September 2013, 0437 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. According to Chinese media, the launch was successful.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Soyuz TMA-10M; Date: 25 September 2013, 1958 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

NSR’s 10th edition of the Government and Military Satellite Communications (GMSC-10) report projects the industry will generate US$5 billion in revenue growth by 2022 primarily from rising transponder and bandwidth demand of UAVs and airborne manned missions.