Satellite News

Boeing and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are collaborating to design, build and test a technology demonstration vehicle for the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) programme.

For its sixth launch of the year, and the third Ariane 5 mission in 2017 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: ViaSat-2 for ViaSat Inc.; and Eutelsat 172B for Eutelsat.

A fund of RMB160 million (US$23.3 million) was set up to help the development of four space science satellites, as well as advanced scientific research.

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) achieved critical milestone of the AsiaSat 9 programme with the successful conclusion of the Satellite Pre-Ship Review (SPSR) meeting with Space Systems Loral (SSL).

SES announced the successful integration of NASA’s Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) hosted payload with SES-14.

GomSpace ApS, a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB, has entered a delivery contract with the U.S. company SpaceQuest, Ltd.

ViaSat Inc. announced financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter ending 31 March 2017.

Rocket: Soyuz; Payload: SES-15; Date: 18 May 2017, 1154 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The satellite was placed into a 2,207 km x 31,348.9 km x 5.99 degrees orbit as planned.