Satellite News

The ILS Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) has concluded its work, after a detailed review of the findings, conclusions and identified corrective action plans from the Russian State Inter-agency Commission (IAC) and Khrunichev (KhSC) investigations into the probable cause of the 16 May failure of the Russian Federal Proton mission carrying the Ekspress AM4R satellite.

Rocket: H-IIA; Payload: Himawari-8; Date: 7 October 2014, 0516 UTC; Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew as planned, and, at about 27 minutes and 57 seconds after lift-off, the separation of the Himawari-8 was confirmed.

Orbital and NASA announced an updated schedule for the launch of the Orb-3 cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.

Intelsat General Corp. has been awarded a complete one-year contract renewal to deliver radio and television programming to U.S. military forces serving around the world. The original one-year contact was signed in 2011 and had six, one-year renewal options.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that its JUPITER high-throughput satellite system has been named the 2014 Technology Innovation of the Year at VSAT 2014.