Satellite News

The second batch of recipients for this year’s edition of Euroconsult’s Awards for Excellence in Satellite Business have been revealed during World Satellite Business Week.

NSR’s newly released Global Satellite Ground Segment, 6th Edition report, finds strong post COVID-19 return to growth for the Ground Segment, illuminating a massive increase in upcoming satellite capacity supply. With a double-digit growth forecast, cumulative industry revenues reach US$147 billion through decade.

The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace team successfully achieved three critical milestones on production of its Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Engineering Development Unit (EDU) payload.

Isar Aerospace and the German Space Agency at DLR [German Aerospace Center] have announced the selection of the institutional payloads for the maiden flight of the “Spectrum” rocket planned for the end of 2022 as part of the microlauncher competition.

Three Soyuz-2 rocket launches next year are set to perform rideshare missions, according to data posted on the website of the Glavkosmos commercial launch operator (part of the State Space Corporation Roskosmos).

Euroconsult has revealed the first recipients of its 2021 Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Communication.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SolAero Holdings, Inc., a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures for the global aerospace market, for US$80 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.

Airbus and OneWeb have signed a distribution partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication services for military and governmental use. Airbus will offer new communication services utilising the OneWeb constellation to select European and UK armed forces, and civil protection and security forces, from the end of 2021.