Satellite News

The next Ariane 5 rocket was rolled out from the Launcher Integration Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana to the Final Assembly Building. This process formally transferred authority for the heavy-lift vehicle to Arianespace from production prime contractor Airbus Safran Launchers.

The U.S. Air Force released a Request for Proposal for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Launch Service supporting the Global Positioning System (GPS) III-3 mission scheduled to launch in 2019.

Ad Astra Rocket company said it has successfully completed all milestones and deliverables for the first of its three-year Next Space Technology Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) contract with NASA.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has started constructing a facility that will double the satellite-component production capacity of its Kamakura Works, Sagami Factory in Sagamihara, Japan.

The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester have published a paper that reveals a spacecraft’s position in space in the direction of a particular pulsar can be calculated autonomously, using a small X-ray telescope on board the craft, to an accuracy of 2 km.

Inmarsat announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inmarsat Government, has been issued modification P00001 to lift the stop-work order issued due to a bid protest filed on the initial award.

Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ending 30 June 2016.