Satellite News

The next two spacecraft to join Europe’s Galileo global satellite navigation system have made their initial contact with launcher hardware at the Spaceport in French Guiana, continuing the preparations for their lift-off on an Arianespace Soyuz vehicle in May.

Roskosmos specialists have begun to assemble the nose section of integrated launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1a at Vostochny cosmodrome. The nose section will consist of the Volga upper stage and three spacecraft – Lomonosov, Aist-2D and Samsat-218.

RUAG Space will supply carbon structures for United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) new Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle.

Russia’s Roskosmos State Corporation won a lawsuit in France over the seizure of US$700 million in compensation for the defunct Yukos oil company-related assets, Roskosmos communications director Igor Bure was quoted as saying.

SES Government Solutions was the sole winner of the two U.S. Government TROJAN follow-on contracts which support U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).