Satellite News

Magellan Aerospace celebrated the first anniversary of its MAC-200 Bus on the Cascade SmallSat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE) mission in space.

Ikonos, built by Lockheed Martin for DigitalGlobe, Inc., celebrated its 15th birthday on-orbit.

It is 20 years since Russia’s Minister of Communications, Vladimir Bulgak, signed the agreement marking the Russian Federation’s membership of the Eutelsat organisation.

Intelsat today commemorated its 50th anniversary of providing critical telecommunications and video content distribution infrastructure for businesses, organisations and governments around the world.

Fifteen years ago, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Two scientific spacecraft and a military communications payload produced by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) are observing major on orbit anniversaries this year as they continue to perform for many additional years beyond their design lives.

Sea Launch today celebrated the 15 year anniversary of the successful maiden launch of the Zenit-3SL ocean-based launch system with the DemoSat spacecraft that occurred on 27 March 1999.

Intelsat S.A. has launched the commemoration of the company’s 50th anniversary and the founding of the commercial satellite sector.