Satellite News

SES announced that ANATEL, the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency, has approved the NSS-806 satellite for use at the 48 degrees West orbital position recently awarded at auction to SES. The satellite will provide capacity for Brazil and Latin America.

The European Commission and ESA have signed an Agreement of over EUR3 billion to manage and implement the Copernicus ‘space component’ between 2014 and 2021.

Sierra Nevada Corp. filed a federal lawsuit to stop work under the CCtCap contracts awarded by NASA while a bid protest is under way, the company’s vice president said.

Under statutory authority available to it, NASA has decided to proceed with the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts awarded to The Boeing Company and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. notwithstanding the bid protest filed at the U.S. Government Accountability Office by Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it has filed a legal challenge to the award of contracts to Boeing and SpaceX under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) programme.

ViaSat Inc. has reached a comprehensive settlement of all outstanding claims related to its litigation with Space Systems/Loral (SSL) and Loral Space & Communications Inc. for breach of contract and patent infringement.

Loral Space & Communications Inc. announced that the trial court on 8 August 2014 issued decisions on the post-trial motions filed in the breach of contract and patent infringement lawsuit brought by ViaSat, Inc. (ViaSat) against Loral and Loral’s former subsidiary, Space Systems/Loral, LLC (SSL).

DigitalGlobe, Inc. has received notice from the U.S. Department of Commerce on its application to allow the company to sell its highest-quality commercial satellite imagery.