Satellite News

A United States Air Force Minotaur I rocket is scheduled to lift-off at 0030 UTC on 20 November from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0B at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Briz M upper stage designated to the Proton launch vehicle that will be used to loft Inmarsat 5F-1 for Inmarsat was delivered today to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The new head of Russia’s federal space agency Roskosmos has requested that the country no longer buy telecommunications satellites from abroad because that money should go to the domestic industry,the Kommersant daily reported.

Avanti has signed a multiyear contract for over 56 Mb of managed capacity on its HYLAS 2 satellite with Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Dimension Data, South Africa.

Eutelsat Communications and Cyfrowy Polsat announced a new contract for additional capacity at Eutelsat’s Hotbird video neighbourhood and a multi-year agreement to extend the lease of existing capacity.