Satellite News

United Launch Alliance (ULA) and RUAG Space announced a new strategic partnership in which RUAG will establish a U.S. composites production capability located within ULA’s Decatur, Alabama, factory.

Lockheed Martin engineers have successfully completed testing of design changes made to the NASA Orion spacecraft’s fairing separation system. These changes resulted from data collected during Orion’s first test flight on 5 December 2014.

Manufacturing of navigational satellites of the GLONASS-M family in the Krasnoyarsk territory has been rounded up and they will be replaced by the satellites of next-generation families – GLONASS-K and GLONASS-K2, a spokesman for manufacturer ISS Reshetnev said.

Thales Alenia Space, acting on behalf of the temporary association of companies with Finmeccanica – Telespazio, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), on 30 July signed an addendum to the contract for the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) worth EUR182 million.

COM DEV International and exactEarth Ltd. announced that the proposed exactEarth initial public offering is being postponed due to current challenging conditions in the capital markets.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reported financial results for the second quarter ending 30 June 2015.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. reported financial results for the quarter ending 30 June 2015.

SES Platform Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES S.A., announced that digital TV operator StarTimes will distribute TV channels for their direct-to-home (DTH) subscribers across Sub-Saharan Africa via SES Platform Services’ broadcast facility in Germany.