Satellite News

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), at Mars since 2006, put itself into a precautionary standby mode on 15 February in response to sensing an unexpectedly low battery voltage.

Avanti Communications Group plc announced its HYLAS 4 satellite has arrived safely in French Guiana ahead of its March 2018 launch.

SpaceX has pushed back the launch of a Spanish radar observation satellite from California from Sunday until 21 February.

On 15 February at 1038 UTC the cargo transportation spacecraft Progress MS-08 successfully docked with the propulsion compartment of the Service Module Zvezda of the International Space Station (ISS).

MDA announced that it has signed a contract valued at approximately C$4 million with Airbus for design studies dedicated to the optical data relay payload of the third SpaceDataHighway satellite.

The Board of Directors of Eutelsat Communications has reviewed the financial results for the half-year ending 31 December 2017.

NSR’s industry-first China Satcom Markets (CSM) report finds a Chinese satellite industry primed to take a larger share of the global satcom market through attractive one-stop-shop offerings, aggressive growth plans and enhanced exports.

The re-ignitable Vinci engine, which will power the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, has now successfully completed its last two subsystems qualification campaigns (M6 and M7) with 140 engine tests conducted.