Satellite News

The Rosetta spacecraft “woke up” after a record 957 days of hibernation. The first communication from the spacecraft arrived at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, at 1818 UTC. The signal was received by a ground station at the Goldstone, California, complex of NASA’s Deep Space Network.

The Rocket and Space Corporation Energia ended 2013 with good business indicators, its president and general designer Vitaly Lopota was quoted as saying.

SES has concluded an agreement with SIS LIVE to provide Ka-band capacity on the Astra 1L satellite located at 19.2 degrees East.

According to a new market report “Commercial Satellite Imaging Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 2013 – 2019,” published by Transparency Market Research, the market for commercial satellite imaging globally is forecast to reach US$5,018.6 million by 2019.