Satellite News

Airbus has completed the ocean satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6A’, and is now sending it to Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the satellite will undergo an extensive series of tests at Industrieanlagen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) to prove its readiness for space.

Details have emerged regarding the incident involving ESA’s Aeolus and one of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. SpaceX meanwhile blamed a “a bug in our on-call paging system” for its failure to co-ordinate evasive manoeuvres with ESA.

Eutelsat announced its withdrawal from the C-Band Alliance (“CBA”), which has been formally notified to the CBA members.