Satellite News

Intelsat announced that Intelsat 33e, the second of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites (HTS), successfully completed all in-orbit testing and entered service on 29 January 2017.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) H-II Transport Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) has left the International Space Station.

GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP), the U.S. subsidiary of GS Yuasa Corporation (GYC), and EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, jointly announced that Orbital ATK has selected EaglePicher to design and manufacture a battery with specifications to use lithium-ion cells manufactured by GS Yuasa Technology (GYT) to power the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 spacecraft.

NanoSpace AB – a subsidiary of GS Sweden AB – has received an order of Xenon flow control components from The Scientific and Technological Research Counsil of Turkey – Space Technologies Research Institute (TUBITAK UZAY) in Ankara.

Raytheon completed factory acceptance testing of the flight operations system for the James Webb Space Telescope .

A Boeing satellite built for ABS entered into commercial service, providing enhanced satellite services including direct-to-home television services on 21 January to customers in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, South Asia and South East Asia.

JAXA confirmed the completion of the critical operations phase of Arase (ERG, or Exploration of energisation and Radiation in Geospace).

China’s first high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite has passed all its in-orbit tests and is now operational, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND).