Satellite News

Allied Minds plc announced the appointment of Barry Matsumori as CEO of BridgeSat, Inc. (BridgeSat) effective 17 July 2017.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide systems that will expand Australia’s ability to fully realise its investment in the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system programme.

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has released its 2017 State of the Satellite Industry Report. The report shows continued growth in the overall industry with global satellite revenues increasing by two percent during 2016 to just over US$260 billion.

Roskosmos, in co-operation with the state bodies of Kazakhstan, has taken additional precautions intended to minimise negative consequences of launches from the Baikonur space centre that Russia leases from Kazakhstan, the agency’s press service said.

Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) said it developed the world’s smallest and lightest quantum-communication transmitter (SOTA) onboard the microsatellite SOCRATES.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Intelsat 35e; Date: 5 July 2017, 2338 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The satellite separated from the rocket’s upper stage 32 minutes after launch, and signal acquisition has been confirmed.

The Chinese communications satellite Zhongxing-9A [ChinaSat 9A] has entered its preset orbit over two weeks after its launch on 18 June (UTC).

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its subsidiary Space Systems Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a next-generation satellite constellation for high-resolution Earth imaging to DigitalGlobe.