Satellite News

Khrunichev Space Center (KhSC) and OAO Russian Space Systems (RSS), both affiliates of URSC, in the process of expanding their mutually beneficial co-operation, have agreed to reduce by 10% the cost of RSS-manufactured hardware for the Proton-M booster and Briz-M Upper Stage.

OneWeb, which plans to build a new global broadband communications system announced it has raised US$500 million of funding from a group of leading international companies. OneWeb also announced the largest commercial rocket acquisition ever of more than 65 rockets. In addition, the company will co-operate with Intelsat and Hughes.

The EUMETSAT Council successfully concluded the approval process for the EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) programme with all 30 Member States having now firmly committed themselves.

Russia’s Radio-Electronic Technologies Group (KRET) is developing a fundamentally new electronic warfare system capable of suppressing cruise missile and other high-precision weaponry guidance systems and satellite radio-electronic equipment, KRET Deputy CEO Yuri Mayevsky was quoted as saying by TASS.