Satellite News

ILS and UK headquartered Effective Space announce their intent to contract to deliver two of Effective Space’s “Space Drone” spacecraft into orbit. The Proton Briz M rideshare launch is planned for 2020 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Antenna Systems Division (ASD) of Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the limited-motion satellite antenna family from Viasat Inc.

Viasat Inc. announced the availability of ViaSat-2 satellite communications (SATCOM) service for government, defence and military applications.

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: four O3b satellites; Date: 9 March 2018, 710:06 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. Soyuz deployed its four passengers during a flight of approximately 2 hrs., 22 min. This included the propulsion of Soyuz’ first three stages, as well as four burns of its Fregat upper stage.

Europe’s first mission to Mercury will soon be ready for shipping to the spaceport to begin final preparations for launch.

The assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) team at Lockheed Martin has started production of a new commercial satellite, JCSAT-17, that will deliver flexible, high-bandwidth communications to users in Japan and the surrounding region.

Eutelsat Communications has commissioned a nano-satellite from manufacturer Tyvak International SRL, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation.

Optus Satellite and Telesat announced they will be collaborating in live, over-the-air trials on Telesat’s recently launched low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite.