Satellite News

Ariane 5 is on the move as launcher and payload preparations continue in French Guiana for Arianespace’s upcoming dual-passenger mission at the service of Intelsat, DirecTV and ARSAT.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract with the Antrix Corporation (the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation) to launch the M3M satellite on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from India in 2015.

The partial launch failure of a Soyuz carrying two Galileo navigation satellites was reportedly caused by a frozen fuel pipe in the rocket’s Fregat upper stage.

In a recent meeting, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to launch a NASA-ISRO satellite mission to observe Earth and establish a pathway for future joint missions to explore Mars.