Satellite News

The countdown for the SES-9 satellite launch aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, was halted with only 1 minute, 40 seconds to go due to problems loading the liquid oxygen into the rocket, according to John Insprucker, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 product director.

China’s first micro-gravity experimental satellite is scheduled to be launched in April of this year. The Shijian-10 satellite has arrived at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gansu province on Wednesday, ahead of its scheduled launch in April.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conduct first phase design studies for a spacecraft that can travel to an asteroid, remove a boulder, and redirect it into a lunar orbit to prepare it for a visit by astronauts in the 2020’s.

The SENER engineering and technology group has signed new contracts for the Phase C and Phase D of the Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 satellites.

SES S.A. reported financial results for 2015.

Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial and operating results for 2015.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. reported financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ending 31 December 2015.

SES Platform Services GmbH (SES PS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES S.A., announced an agreement whereby RR Media will merge its operations with those of SES PS.