Satellite News

The Government of Canada has announced a new vision system to support the inspection and maintenance of the International Space Station.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has been recognised as part of the New Horizons spacecraft Pluto mission team by the National Space Club and Foundation, which named the team a winner of the 2016 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.

Build-up of the initial Ariane 5 to be launched in 2016 has begun at the Spaceport in French Guiana. With lift-off scheduled on 27 January, the Ariane 5 is to loft Intelsat 29e – the first of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites.

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., received a US$6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the standards that will be used to qualify additively manufactured components for use in liquid-fuelled rocket engine applications.

Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has completed the Critical Design Review for the KhalifaSat Engineering Model (EM) as well as the the satellite’s flight software.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its SAT Corporation subsidiary will provide expanded end-to-end satellite RF monitoring, interference detection, geolocation and mitigation services to the Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space).

Inmarsat plc confirmed that global Commercial Service Introduction (CSI) was achieved during December 2015 for its new Global Xpress (GX) constellation, which is formed of three Ka-band, high-speed mobile broadband communications satellites.

Arianespace said it expects sales to have surpassed EUR1.4 billion in 2015, the highest total in its history. The company also announced two new launch service contracts to start the year.