Satellite News

The first two Galileo FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites arrived today at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. In the next few days, preparations for their launch will kick off.

Pre-launch processing has begun for the O3b Networks satellites to be orbited on Arianespace’s upcoming Soyuz flight.

Thaicom Public Company Limited, Thailand’s satellite operator, announced that its planned Thaicom 8 satellite will be launched in the first half of 2016.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. was awarded a contract by the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for a technology transfer and flight hardware upgrade programme which could be valued up to US$17.6 million.

Harris Corporation has completed the first of four antenna-feed upgrades that will provide performance improvements essential to processing the new frequencies and increased volume of meteorological data that will come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R Series (GOES-R).

United Launch Alliance said that “ULA and the U.S. Department of Justice filed motions to dissolve the preliminary injunction supporting ULA’s earlier statements that the purchase of the RD-180 engines from our suppliers and partners, RD AMROSS and NPO Energomash, does not violate the Ukraine sanctions.