Satellite News

Roskosmos said it is working with aerospace enterprises on the creation of radar satellites.

The Boeing Company reported financial results for the fourth-quarter and the year 2013.

Eutelsat Communications and the Afghanistan Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) announced they have signed an MOU giving Afghanistan satellite resources that will enhance deployment of its national broadcasting and telecommunications infrastructure as well as its international connectivity.

SES announced that Orange Business Services, a global IT and communications services provider, has renewed and expanded a capacity contract with SES to support growing connectivity needs in the Russian Federation.

Russia’s Roskosmos space agency is to seek government approval to build the world’s largest rocket, Roskosmos head Oleg Ostapenko was quoted as saying.

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is scheduled to launch on 27 February from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.

RSCC and UK-based Earthly Orbit Communications Limited announced the continued expansion of their co-operation. Earthly Orbit has been successfully promoting and managing RSCC capacity since 2006.

China’s Yutu moon rover has experienced a mechanical control anomaly that could be related to the mechanism that protects Yutu from the cold of lunar night. Chinese media, however, did not give technical details of the problem.