Satellite News

The Rosetta comet chaser developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency (ESA) has arrived at its destination after flying for more than 10 years and travelling more than six billion kilometres. It is now ready to swivel into an orbit around the comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

AsiaSat 8 satellite is successfully performing post-launch manoeuvres according to plan, its manufacturer SSL said.

COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) contract to deliver C and Ku Band Multiplexers and Coaxial and Waveguide switches to a high throughput satellite.

SpaceX will build the world’s first private commercial rocket launch facility in the U.S. state of Texas, the company and Texan officials announced Monday, with launches as early as 2015.

Intelsat S.A. announced that Orange Niger, part of the Orange Group, is utilising Intelsat capacity to expand its cellular network to the rural regions of Niger.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: AsiaSat 8; Date: 5 August 2014, 0800 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The spacecraft successfully separated from the launch vehicle 32 minutes after lift-off.

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a communications satellite to Intelsat S.A. Intelsat 36 is designed to provide media and content distribution services in Africa and South Asia .

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it has taken into storage Lybid, a telecommunications satellite that was built for Ukrainian satellite operator Ukrkosmos.