Satellite News

Eutelsat Communications announced that Panasonic Avionics Corporation has booked additional capacity on the Eutelsat 172A satellite to deliver broadband connectivity and TV services to commercial airlines over the Pacific Ocean region.

exactEarth Ltd. announced that it has been selected by Telespazio France to supply Satellite AIS services to the French Navy as part of the recently announced four-year Trimaran 2 project won by a consortium of Airbus Defense and Space and Telespazio France.

A new date has been set for the launch of EchoStar XVIII and BRISat aboard an Ariane 5 ECA.

Today’s scheduled Proton launch of the Intelsat 31 satellite has been postponed owing to an issue associated with electrical ground system equipment at Launch Pad 24.

NASA has awarded The Aerospace Corporation a grant to investigate the possibility of developing an extremely thin spacecraft that would wrap around debris and remove it from Earth’s orbit.

The lift-off of Flight VA230 has been postponed following an anomaly that occurred prior to the Ariane 5’s roll-out to the launch zone in French Guiana.

On its fifth launch of the year, which will be the third mission in 2016 utilising an Ariane 5 launcher from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: EchoStar XVIII for the operator DISH Network L.L.C.; and BRlsat for PT.Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk.

ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory.