Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has signed a sponsored research agreement with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the development of the Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI). Under the terms of the agreement, Northrop Grumman will provide up to US$17.5 million to the initiative over three years.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC’s) Space Systems and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announce the signing of a new Dream Chaser programme co-operation.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced it delivered the SKY MEXICO-1 (SKYM-1, formerly also knopwn as DTH) satellite to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana for its DirecTV customer.

Thales Alenia Space announced the successful completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Koreasat-7 and Koreasat-5A satellites.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract to provide payload equipment for a commercial satellite that will offer a range of communications services to a portion of the Asian market.

On 18 April 2015, ISS-Reshetnev Company celebrates 15 years since the launch of the geostationary telecommunications satellite Sesat, developed and built for Eutelsat.

Australian satellite firm NewSat was placed in administration just weeks after COFACE withdrew support for the launch of the company’s Jabiru-1 satellite.

Arianespace has established the new targeted launch date for Flight VA222, using an Ariane 5 ECA to orbit the Thor 7 and SICRAL 2 satellites.