Satellite News

Airbus Defence and Space has chosen Arianespace to launch PeruSat-1, the Peruvian Earth observation satellite on a European Vega launcher from Kourou spaceport. The launch of PeruSat-1 is scheduled for 2016.

Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it is currently developing the onboard scientific instruments subsystem of the space-based observatory Millimetron and performing its components testing.

Export Development Canada (EDC) announced financing of EUR140 million to the Hispasat Group (Hispasat) for the construction of Amazonas 5 by Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA).

Inmarsat announced the successful transition of key voice and broadband data services for the EMEA region from Inmarsat-4 F2 (I-4 F2) to Alphasat, Europe’s largest and most sophisticated telecommunications satellite.

By popular demand, ULA has added two names to its poll for the company’s next-generation rocket: Zeus and Vulcan.

Rocket: Delta IV Medium-plus (4,2); Payload: GPS IIF-9; Date: 25 March 2015, 1836 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The navigation satellite was successfully deployed at 2155 UTC.

India’s Mars mission has completed six months in space and all scientific instruments are in good working condition.

On 24 March 2015, Roskosmos held a competition to fill the vacancy of General Director (CEO) at Khrunichev Space Center (KhSC), resulting in the selection of Andrey Kalinovsky who had been KhSC Acting General Director since August 2014.