Satellite News

The Orion spacecraft has moved another step closer toward its first test flight as the core and starboard boosters for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket contracted by Lockheed Martin for that flight have arrived to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Russia is still considering the amount of damages requested by Kazakhstan to compensate the environmental harm caused by the Proton-M carrier rocket crash, Tengrinews reported.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Integral Systems Europe (Kratos ISE) business group has been awarded a contract by An Phat Technology Trading Joint Stock Company to upgrade the Vinasat-1 Network Operations Center (NOC) in Vietnam to support the Vinasat-2 satellite.

Raytheon has received a US$185 million modification from NASA on its current Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) contract, which is intended to increase the capability and capacity of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) three satellites that support the JPSS mission through 2022.

Eutelsat Communications announced that Satmex, a significant provider of Fixed Satellites Services in the Americas, which joined the Group in January this year, has been renamed Eutelsat Americas.

Boeing satellite pioneer Harold A. Rosen, whose work helped make possible the global broadband communications that shapes modern society, received a lifetime achievement award from Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine on 6 March.