Satellite News

ICEYE announced that it has entered into a co-operative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) to advance Earth observation technology in support of U.S. Army missions.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with SES to deliver two Ku-band geostationary satellites, ASTRA 1P and ASTRA 1Q to serve SES’s major European broadcasters’ content distribution operations as well as deliver connectivity services over Europe at 19.2° East.

ESA and the French space agency, CNES, are exploring together the possibility to create a European Space Transportation Hub.

5G IoT satellite operator OQ Technology has announced the upcoming launch of its second ‘cell tower in space’.

Smallsat integrator NanoAvionics has announced its latest satellite rideshare mission “MP42” to be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 with payloads from OQ Technology and Veoware.

The launch of the Proton-M heavy lift launch vehicle with the Ekspress-AMU3 and Ekspress-AMU7 communication satellites has been postponed from 6 December to 12 December, CEO of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying.

Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky Gen-2 satellites; Date: 18 November 2021, 0138 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The Earth-imaging satellites were deployed into 427 km x 439 km x 42.02 degrees orbits.