Satellite News

United Launch Alliance spokeswoman Julie Arnold said that there was an emergency situation with a Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine in 2018 during a launch of Atlas V rocket, noting that the incident did not affect the flight.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) has selected the consortium led by the domestic satellite operator Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deploy and operate a broadband telecommunication satellite. This consortium has awarded Thales Alenia Space to design and manufacture the satellite named SATRIA (Indonesian for ‘knight’).

Airbus said it has enlarged its high-resolution imagery portfolio following an agreement to leverage capacity from the S1-4 satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). This new imagery offer called Vision-1 delivers full end-to-end imaging operations to Airbus’ customers.