Satellite News

Orbital ATK, Inc. has signed an agreement with European green propulsion technology firm ECAPS to fully develop, demonstrate and market a high performance green propulsion (HPGP) system. The HPGP system, which offers significant cost advantages and dramatically reduces the environmental risks associated with traditional monopropellants, is aimed at both attitude control and main propulsion.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and Shenzhen municipal government in Guangdong Province of China have signed a co-operation agreement on the High Throughput Broadband Satellite (HTS) programme, which marks the initiation of China’s first HTS broadband telecommunications system.

HawkEye 360, Inc., a subsidiary of Allied Minds, and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to apply HawkEye 360’s radio frequency (RF) detection and mapping technology in new markets.

Telesat Holdings Inc. announced its consolidated financial results for the three month period ending 30 June 2016.

Everything is progressing toward the Atlas V launch carrying the NROL-61 satellite, United Launch Alliance said.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has passed the second Integration Certification Milestone under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract.

The U.S. Air Force’s DMSP F19 weather satellite, which failed two years into its planned five-year lifetime, cannot be recovered, officials said.

Intelsat S.A. announced that Intelsat 33e, the second of the Intelsat EpicNG series of high throughput satellites (“HTS”), arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will undergo final preparations before its scheduled launch on an Ariane 5 rocket on 24 August 2016.