Satellite News

All the seven satellites of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) are expected to be in orbit by March 2016, according to a top Indian Space Research Organisation official.

Western sanctions will not affect the Russian Arktika satellite project because the design of satellites is originally based on domestic technologies, according to Sergei Lemeshevsky of the Lavochkin Research and Production Association.

The multifunctional personal communications system Gonets-D1M, based on LEO satellites designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev, has successfully completed in-orbit flight tests.

Finmeccanica-Telespazio has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a duration extending until 2020, to support the operations and the corrective and evolving maintenance of the Sentinel-1 mission’s ground segment as part of the Copernicus programme, the European Earth Observation Programme.