Satellite News

SES S.A. and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) announced further significant Ku-band capacity agreements to help usher in the next generation connected airline passenger experience across established and developing markets around the world.

The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on 8 April, remains under investigation.

The re-entry capsule of China’s first retrievable microgravity satellite, SJ-10, returned safely to Earth on Monday.

Airbus Defence and Space will supply its highest-precision fibre Optic Gyro Unit (FOG) for a mission led by the U.S., French, Canadian, and United Kingdom Space agencies, NASA, CNES, CSA, and UKSA, that will launch in 2020 to study Earth’s surface water.

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.