Satellite News

The Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a contract for SSC to provide S-band ranging service to KARI for the satellite mission COMS-1 (Communications, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite).

Space-Communication announced that Q-Kon, a South Africa-based telecom service provider, has leased long term capacity on the Amos-5i satellite (the former AsiaSat 2) and on its planned successor, the Amos-5 satellite.
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“Two weeks before its scheduled return to Earth, Japan’s Hayabusa asteroid explorer is halfway through a series of unprecedented ion engine burns to aim the probe for a narrow re-entry corridor toward Australia.” (Spaceflight Now)
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SES World Skies announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Audio Visual Company JSC (AVG), a joint stock company of An Vien Group, to provide transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satellite for their new direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service in Vietnam.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed flight testing of the first airborne terminal system to be certified for connection to the Wideband Global Satellite (WGS).

SES World Skies, U.S. Government Solutions announced it has signed a major capacity agreement with ARTEL to extend U.S. Government communications capabilities in the Middle East.
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Harris Corporation recently completed the System Definition Review (SDR) of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) programme in Melbourne, Florida/USA.
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Spacecom, the operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced that Slovak Telekom’s Magio TV has launched its satellite TV service on the Amos-3 satellite.
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