Satellite News

Nanoracks announced that it has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-using spent C4M [Cyclone-4M, Tsiklon-4M] rocket upper stages, which would be in-orbit after launch missions from Nova Scotia’s Canso Spaceport, Canada’s first and only commercial spaceport.

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on 21 October when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.

The Enhanced Polar System (EPS) was declared operational and handed over to U.S. Air Force operators following months of on-orbit check out and the successful completion of a Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).

Italian space transportation company D-Orbit announced the launch of Aurora, a customisable, cloud-based mission control software suite specially designed for the next-generation small satellite constellations.

The Boeing Company reported third-quarter financial results.

SES and Thales have successfully demonstrated uninterrupted access to high-throughput broadband applications for the first time over a platform supporting multi-orbit interoperability, switching seamlessly between SES’s geostationary (GEO) and O3b medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite beams.