Satellite News

A Proton M launch vehicle is to launch Turksat-4A on 14 February 2013, 2109 UTC, from Pad 24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It will be the first ILS launch of 2014.

ISS-Reshetnev Company has commenced mating the platform and the payload module of the telecommunications satellite Ekspress-AM8.

Azerkosmos JSC of the Azerbaijani Communications and IT Ministry has announced a tender for the construction of the second telecommunications satellite Azerspace-2, Azerbaijani Communications and IT Minister Ali Abbasov was quoted as saying.

Bolivia’s first communications satellite is under its full control and expected to be ready for operation on 1 April, the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) announced.

The in-orbit validation of Galileo has been achieved: Europe now has the operational nucleus of its own satellite navigation constellation in place – the world’s first civil-owned and operated satnav system, ESA said.

Inmarsat has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation to field its Spectrum Interference and Monitoring System (SIMS) to government users of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress service.