Satellite News

Officials with SSC, the Swedish Space Corporation, and Millennium Space Systems of El Segundo, Calif., announced they are teaming together on the first-ever ALTAIR launch to provide customisation and rapid constellation production for Millennium’s customers.

Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with NASA to deploy SkyFire, a 6U CubeSat planned to launch to the moon in 2018 with Orion’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).

U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and 460th Space Wing announced the successful completion of the Space-Based Infrared Systems Block 10 ground system’s Integrated Test and Evaluation (IT&E) phase and entry into Operational Utility Evaluation (OUE), the dedicated operational testing phase of the programme.

Eutelsat Communications and SpeedCast International Limited have signed an agreement whereby SpeedCast will acquire Eutelsat’s 70% stake in Wins Limited for a consideration based on a total enterprise value of approximately EUR60 million.

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.