Satellite News

The University of Manchester is leading a multi-million pound project to develop satellites which will orbit much closer to the Earth – making them smaller, cheaper, helping to dodge space debris and improving the quality of images they can send back.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation (“CGWIC”), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation, and APT Satellite Company Limited (“APT (HK)”) and APT Mobile SatCom Limited(“APT Mobile”) formally recently signed the Apstar-6D Satellite In-orbit Delivery Procurement Contract, and a Letter of Intent of procurement of a Global High-throughput Satellite Communication System(“Letter of Intent”).

The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) has selected Eutelsat Communications for the development, integration and operation of the next-generation EGNOS payload on a future Eutelsat satellite.

Rocket engines made by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. are now providing in-flight manoeuvres for the Intelsat 33e communications satellite, which launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana on 24 August.

The delivery of Lockheed Martin’s first GPS III satellite, which is already 34 months late, has been delayed again. The most recent delivery goal had been 28 February. Now, the U.S. Air Force has opened a review of the spacecraft’s propulsion systems.

Aireon announced that they have formally received control from Iridium Communications Inc. of the first Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payload hosted on an Iridium NEXT satellite.

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a provider of complete microspace missions based at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), has been contracted by GHGSat Inc. of Montreal to develop the GHGSat-C1 and C2 greenhouse gas monitoring satellites.

GomSpace A/S has been selected by and has entered into a procurement contract with the UK company Sky and Space Global (UK) Ltd. to develop and deliver a constellation of satellites within a four-year period.