Satellite News

Build-up of the initial Ariane 5 to be launched in 2016 has begun at the Spaceport in French Guiana, readying an unusual single-payload flight for the heavy-lift workhorse.

The launch campaign for Sentinel-3A, the next satellite of the European Commission’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme, has started.

NASA’s InSight Mars lander has a leak that could delay the mission. The agency said that the leak is in one of two prime science instruments. The seismic experiment belongs to the French Space Agency.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a five-year highway bill that would fund America’s roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and revive the charter of the U.S. Export-Import Bank over the objections of conservative Republicans.

U.S. federal regulators have approved LightSquared’s request to transfer its valuable spectrum licenses to a newly formed company, paving the way for the wireless venture to emerge from bankruptcy protection by the end of the year.