Satellite News

South Korea’s science ministry has opened a probe against KT Corp. as a part of its move to review the legitimacy of the firm’s sales of the retired Koreasat 2 and 3 satellites.

The Russian government plans to create a new state corporation to take over manufacturing facilities from the Federal Space Agency Roskosmos. According to some reports, Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin opposes the plan and is expected to resign.

U.S. Congress has failed to agree on a federal budget for 2014, setting off a government shutdown that also affects NASA.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) of Paris has drawn its conclusions on the first phase of the arbitration initiated by Eutelsat Communications against SES in October 2012.

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A government commission has determined the degree of guilt of Khrunichev space centre executives responsible for the 2 July Proton rocket launch failure, Russia’s Vice-Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying.

The financial police have arrested Gabdullatif Murzakulov, President of Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary national company, for alleged corruption.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has issued an official reprimand to the head of Roskosmos after a series of embarrassing rocket launch failures.