Satellite News

NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes, launched in August 2012, have entered the final phase in their exploration.

LeoStella, a smallsat design and manufacturing company, announced the official inauguration of its production facilities in Tukwila, Wash., USA.

Arianespace has completed a major preparation milestone for its next Soyuz launch with integration of the mission’s payload: the initial six spacecraft in OneWeb’s constellation.

RemoveDEBRIS successfully fired a harpoon on 8 February 2018 at a speed of 20 metres per second and penetrated a target made of satellite panel material. The harpoon and 1.5 metre target boom were designed by a team at Airbus in Stevenage UK.

The Board of Directors of Eutelsat Communications reviewed the financial results for the half-year ended 31 December 2018.

Sergei Sopov, Chief Executive Officer of Sea Launch operator S7 Space is leaving the company.

The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018. After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity on 12 February, to no avail.

NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy’s planetary systems.