Satellite News

The ninth Soyuz launch from Kourou was given its go-ahead today with a dual-Galileo FOC satellite payload.

Northrop Grumman Corporation with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Experimental Spaceplane XS-1 programme.

SSC company NanoSpace has signed a new contract with ESA to develop a Xenon flow controller for telecommunication satellites.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Electric Propulsion Technical Committee at the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics for its contribution to the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-1 (AEHF-1) Rescue Team.

Intelsat today commemorated its 50th anniversary of providing critical telecommunications and video content distribution infrastructure for businesses, organisations and governments around the world.