Satellite News

ESA, Arianespace, and respective industrial prime contractors ArianeGroup and Avio signed protocols on the Launchers Exploitation Phase for Ariane 6 and Vega-C.

Airbus, ESA and Eutelsat presented the new ground breaking multibeam active antenna payload at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus’ ELSA+ (ELectronically Steerable Antenna+) is a first for commercial satellite communications in Europe.

Delegates representing International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Member States have agreed at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to adopt a new milestone-based approach for the deployment of non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) systems in specific radio-frequency bands and services.

China Satcom has filed an insurance claim over the ChinaSat-18 communications satellite after it failed to communicate with the satellite, which is now considered a total loss.

Firefly Aerospace announced 26 payloads were selected to fly on the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM), a global competition to host academic and educational payloads as rideshare participants on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.

The KL-ALPHA A and KL-ALPHA B satellites that recently flew aboard a Kuaizhou-1A rocket were reportedly launched on behalf of KLEO Connect GmbH, Munich, Germany.

India will launch its cartography satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun-synchronous orbit on 24 November (UTC), the Indian space agency said.

The all-electric KONNECT communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat Communications is now undergoing final preparation prior to being shipped to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for a launch planned mid-January 2020.