Satellite News

Boeing announced its investment in Denver-based BridgeSat Inc., an optical communications solutions company enabling the future of connectivity in space through a network of ground stations and proprietary space terminals.

Following the launch of Aeolus on 22 August, the satellite’s instrument has been turned on and is now emitting pulses of ultraviolet light from its laser, which is fundamental to measuring Earth’s wind.

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has woken up from yet another slumber and begun collecting science data again, the agency said.

The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence has moved into the final design and assembly phase, following NASA’s approval on 16 August.

With Europe’s Galileo constellation in space now expanded to 26 navigation satellites – and Galileo Initial Services available to users world-wide – the infrastructure on the ground that controls them is undergoing a corresponding expansion.

Qualification of the two liquid propulsion engines and the solid propulsion engine for the Ariane 6 launcher passed major technological milestones over the summer of 2018.

SES announced that the high-powered SES-14 satellite, positioned at 47.5 degrees West, is now serving Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, North Atlantic and West Africa.

Thales Alenia Space announced to have signed contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Phase A/B1 studies of two elements of LOP-G (Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway), formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway.