Satellite News

Raytheon Company successfully completed three preliminary launch readiness events which are important milestones in preparing to launch the modernised Global Positioning System (GPS) system.

Russia’s newest early warning satellite EKS-1 has been put into its target orbit orbit and contact has been established, the Defense Ministry reported.

Recently inside the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers successfully completed two deployments for the James Webb Space Telescope’s “wings” or side portions of the backplane structure that fold up.

Through a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space continues to develop Eurostar Neo, its new generation of platforms for geostationary telecommunication satellites. Under phase C/D of the NEOSAT programme, this contract will lead to the development of the complete Eurostar Neo product line.

COM DEV International Ltd. has signed a long-term agreement (LTA) to supply satellite switch products to a major prime contractor. The contract assures COM DEV of C$8.5 million of switch orders over the two-year duration of the agreement.

Bangladesh has signed a US$250 million deal with French-Italian firm Thales Alenia Space to build the country’s first communications satellite, officials said.

One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a controlled impact of the Rosetta orbiter on the comet.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with BTRC, (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) to build the telecommunications satellite, Bangabandhu, winning the contract against an international field of competitors.