Satellite News

Europe’s pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor is ready to leave Airbus’ Stevenage site for launch on a Rokot rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.

The launch of the Egyptsat-A satellite is scheduled for 2019, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Russia’s RSC Energia corporation Alexander Derechin said.

Under a public-private partnership, NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin a Phase II contract for the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) habitat study contract.

Big Bend Telephone Company, Texas/USA, has become the first commercial user of the EXPLORER MSAT-G3 system for the next generation MSAT service, which combines Cobham SATCOM’s Push-to-Talk technology, the Ligado Networks SkyTerra 1 satellite and ViaSat’s low-latency, IP-based L-band Mobile Satellite Services network.