Satellite News

Spaceflight Inc., a provider of launch services for small and secondary payloads, and NanoRacks LLC, a company commercialising space operations on and deployment from the International Space Station, formally announced a partnership to provide commercial launch services from the ISS.

South Korea’s science ministry has opened a probe against KT Corp. as a part of its move to review the legitimacy of the firm’s sales of the retired Koreasat 2 and 3 satellites.

Inmarsat plc and Orbcomm Inc. announced a strategic alliance to collaborate on joint product development and distribution to address the needs of the satellite M2M market. In addition, they will investigate opportunities for future satellite network expansion and integration.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reported financial results for the third quarter ending 30 September 2013.

Eutelsat Communications and Azam Media Ltd. announced the signature of a long-term contract for capacity on the Eutelsat 7A satellite.

The ATV-4 performed a fully controlled destructive re-entry into the atmosphere on 2 November, following its undocking from the ISS on 28 October, and bringing the five-month mission to its conclusion.

Space Systems/Loral has been selected to develop designs, processes and business terms for carrying small science and technology missions to space on its geostationary (GEO) satellite platform.

Exelis successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate the behaviour of GPS signals in space, which will be used for testing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS ground station known as the operational control system (OCX).