Satellite News

In a first for a European mission, Teledyne e2v’s re-engineered PC7448 microprocessors will be used at the heart of Thales Alenia Space’s on-board computer (OBC) that serve the Lightning Imager (LI) systems on EUMETSAT’s next generation Meteosat geostationary meteorological satellites.

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced the signing of a new contract to provide Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) with a small microsatellite for aerosol and greenhouse gas monitoring.

Thales Alenia Space will supply the Argos Neo instrument for the nano-satellite demonstrator Angels (Argos Neo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite). The satellite for this French space agency CNES mission is being built by Nexeya.

Spaceflight announced the purchase of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket to increase the frequency of its dedicated rideshare missions.

Spaceflight announced the purchase of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket to increase the frequency of its dedicated rideshare missions.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation (“CGWIC”), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (“CASC”), and Indonesia PT. Palapa Satelit Nusa Sejahtera (“PSNS”) signed the contract of Indonesia “Palapa-N1” communication satellite project.

Three Gonets communications satellites, the Geo-IK-2 geodesy satellite and a satellite for the Russian Defense Ministry, made by Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, are to be launched into space this year, the company’s CEO, Nikolay Testoyedov, was quoted as saying.

Airbus Safran Launchers, the joint venture created at the initiative of the Airbus and Safran groups in order to reorganise the European launchers sector, is to be known as ArianeGroup. The change in corporate name will be effective as of 1 July 2017.