Satellite News

NASA officials announced they have completed a rigorous review of the Space Launch System (SLS) and approved the programme’s progression from formulation to development, something no other exploration class vehicle has achieved since the agency built the space shuttle. However, the vehicle’s first flight has been delayed.

NASA has completed a complex series of tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured, bringing the aerospace industry much closer to designing, building, and flying lightweight, composite tanks on rockets.

SpaceX has decided to postpone the flight of AsiaSat 6 by at least a week, the company said in a statement.

Iridium Communications Inc. announced the successful upgrade of its System Control Segment (SCS) and completion of its Launch and Early Operations (LEOP) control centre for Iridium NEXT.

The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced that works entailing the construction of its primary facility for the manufacture of satellites were on schedule and expected to be completed in the next few months.

It is 20 years since Russia’s Minister of Communications, Vladimir Bulgak, signed the agreement marking the Russian Federation’s membership of the Eutelsat organisation.