Satellite News

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to slash funding for Russia’s space programme by 30%.

Brett Tobey, ULA vice president of engineering, has resigned after saying the firm last year refused to bid on a GPS III launch service contract because it was hoping to avoid a “cost shootout” with SpaceX.

SENER and Thales Alenia Space have signed an agreement for the joint assessment of their collaboration in the future development of optical instruments for space applications.

NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite 10th Edition report forecasts the global installed base of satellite backhaul sites will surpass 67,000 by 2025 and will generate US$2.1 billion in revenues.

China plans to set up a commercial rocket-launch company in view of the market’s potential, Xinhua news agency reported.

The launch of a Dragon cargo vessel aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the International Space Station has been postponed until April, Administrator of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Charles Bolden said.

A solar panel on the Russian satellite Resurs P3 has unfolded only partially after the spacecraft reached its orbit but its systems are receiving sufficient power supply, State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite has apparently been stabilised and is no longer tumbling.