Satellite News

JAXA’s super high-speed Internet satellite Kizuna (or Wideband Inter-Networking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite, WINDS) will be launched no earlier than 23 February (local time), the agency announced.

Boeing has signed an associate contractor’s agreement (ACA) with five other aerospace companies to work together on the Ares I upper stage.

The launch of Vietnam’s first satellite will be delayed eight days, and SpaceX has updated its Falcon launch manifest.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a US$288 million contract extension to Boeing Co. and a US$210.4 million contract extension to Lockheed Martin Corp. to maintain the infrastructure needed to launch satellites and other payloads into space, the Defense Department said.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the second Falcon 9 / Dragon demonstration under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) project.

An experimental Japanese telecommunication satellite and India’s first moon probe will have to stay on the ground a little bit longer than planned.

Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 ES launcher for its upcoming milestone mission, which will orbit Europe’s large Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).

Iran will launch two more research rockets into space before putting its first domestically built satellite into orbit, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.