Satellite News

EL AL has agreed to be the launch customer in Europe for Exede In The Air in-flight Internet service from ViaSat Inc.

Terminal Velocity Aerospace, LLC (TVA) has been awarded a contract by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) for development of a prototype small payload return capsule.

Citing budget pressures, the U.S. Air Force has decided to skip buying the seventh and eighth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites that Lockheed Martin was slated to build.

Iridium Communications Inc. announced that Thales Alenia Space has delivered two complete high-fidelity satellite simulators and a number of low-fidelity simulators to Iridium launch partner SpaceX.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received an order to provide Radarsat-2 information to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) as part of EMSA’s CleanSeaNet programme.

The December launch failure of a Chang Zheng rocket with the CBERS-3 satellite onboard was caused by a clogged fuel line, China Great Wall Industry Corp. said.

China’s Yutu moon rover suffered a control circuit malfunction in its driving unit, which troubled its dormancy in extremely low temperature, a scientist said according to Xinhua.

The first spacecraft for Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation programme – Sentinel-1A – is now undergoing pre-launch checkout, readying it for lift-off on Arianespace’s next Soyuz flight from French Guiana on 3 April.