Satellite News

Astranis announced it has signed an agreement to provide broadband capacity with Astranis MicroGEO communications satellites to Grupo Andesat, a cellular services backhaul provider that connects cell towers in Peru to the Internet backbone, in a new partnership that will bring broadband Internet access to thousands of rural communities across Peru for the first time.

Terran Orbital Corporation announced the successful stationing of the EchoStar Global 3 small satellite into its final operational orbit.

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Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus programme, and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparation for its use in space.

L3Harris Technologies successfully completed the final design review for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking programme.

TsNIIMash, a leading research institute of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos will develop satellites capable of altering payload functions in orbit, Director of the Roskosmos Department of Long-Term Programs and the Sfera (Sphere) Project Sergey Prokhorov was quoted as saying.

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AAC Clyde Space AB has won an order from Aegis Aerospace to supply its Starbuck power systems and battery solutions worth US$500,000 for a satellite mission carried out on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Exotrail has signed a contract with Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer OHB LuxSpace for a co-engineering phase aiming the further integration of ExoMG – cluster², a configuration of Exotrail’s high thrust electric propulsion product family, into the Triton-X Heavy platform.

The Prichal nodal module making part of the Progress M-NM space freighter launched from the Baikonur spaceport on 24 November docked with the Russian Nauka multi-purpose research laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS).