Satellite News

Millennium Space Systems has inked a contract for launch services with NanoRacks LLC of Webster, Texas, to launch its ALTAIR-1 Pathfinder satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) this summer via cargo resupply to the International Space Station (ISS).

The Boeing Company reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2015.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced its third customer commitment for direct access capacity on the WorldView-4 (aka GeoEye-2) satellite, which is expected to begin commercial operations in early 2017 following its launch in September 2016.

Eurockot announced that a delay in launch system infrastructure certification calls for a pause of activities in the Sentinel 3A launch campaign.

The second Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2016 has begun taking shape at French Guiana, as build-up of the heavy-lift vehicle is now underway in the Spaceport’s Launcher Integration Building.

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, U.S. Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space and Space and Missile Systems Center commander, updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launch System to Falcon 9 Upgrade, for use in National Security Space (NSS) missions. The baseline configuration of the Falcon 9 Launch System was updated to the Falcon 9 Upgrade on 25 January.

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Eutelsat 9B satellite on board at 2220:09 UTC on 29 January 2016 (delayed from 27 January).

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) announced that it is changing its name to Telenor Satellite.