Satellite News

Roskosmos has delayed the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship by two days after Sunday’s planned lift-off was aborted at the last minute.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a US$428.8 million contract to Northrop Grumman for two payloads for the Enhanced Polar System’s satellites.

SES S.A. and Intelsat S.A. announced alignment on a proposal to the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which seeks to protect the wide array of established satellite services in the 3,700-4,200 MHz C-band downlink spectrum while opening a specified portion of that spectrum for terrestrial mobile use.

According to Euroconsult’s newly-published report, FSS Operators: Benchmarks & Performance Reveiw, the size of the FSS market has been relatively stable over the last five years (US$11.3 billion), but behind this total significant changes have played out.

ESA has chosen five feasibility studies from industry proposing an economically viable, commercially self-sustaining microlauncher, without public funding. ArianeGroup, MT-Aerospace, ELV, Deimos and PLD Space are carrying out the studies.

Eurovision Media Services – the business arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – and Eutelsat announced the renewal and expansion of their partnership for capacity in Ku-band via a number of contracts on the Eutelsat 10A satellite.

The first test flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket may have been a great publicity stunt but was technically not as successful as many reports suggest.

The construction of two Angara launch vehicles may be ordered in 2019-2020 in order to put Gonets-M satellites into orbit from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.