Satellite News

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: SES-10; Date: 30 March 2017, 2227 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. SES-10 became the first geostationary commercial satellite to ever launch on a rocket with a first-stage that had flown before.

The Progress Space Rocket Center has received the first four tested engines for the third stage of Soyuz rockets, CEO of Energomash rocket engine producer Igor Arbuzov was quoted as saying.

Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman business, has been selected by Airbus Defence and Space to provide the nine meter L-band mesh reflectors for two Inmarsat 6 satellites.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received an Authorisation To Proceed from The Boeing Company for the provision of three Ku-Band communication subsystems that will replace ageing Ku-Band communication subsystems.