Satellite News

Lockheed Martin recently fully integrated the U.S. Air Force’s first next generation GPS III satellite at the company’s Denver-area satellite manufacturing facility. The first in a new design block of more powerful and accurate GPS satellites, GPS III Space Vehicle One is now preparing for system-level testing this summer.

Roskosmos plans to launch a new sample soil expedition to Mars’ satellite Phobos, according to a draft of Russia’s space programme for 2016-2025.

STMicroelectronics has announced the world’s first 500 Mbaud High-Symbol-Rate (HSR) satellite demodulator chip.

India will launch six more satellites — two communication satellites, three navigation satellites and a space science satellite — in 2015-16.

Inmarsat confirmed that its third Global Xpress (GX) satellite – Inmarsat-5 F3 – has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in anticipation of its launch later this month.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered the first spacecraft for the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 weather forecasting constellation to the National Space Organisation (NSPO) in Taiwan, where it has successfully passed a series of systems checks.

Russia’s United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) is drafting a proposal on the creation of a holding that is to unite several manufacturers of engines for rockets and missiles, Russia’s daily newspaper Izvestia reported.

Intelsat S.A. reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015.