Satellite News

Telesat announced its plans to procure a new satellite with two high throughput payloads, one in Ku-band and the other in Ka-band.

Russian and Chinese experts are discussing the possibility of creating a global low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite system called “Star of Happiness,” according to Russian reports.

A General Dynamics-led team successfully completed, on-schedule, the next phase of the implementation, integration and test of the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) programme, Increment A4.

Arianespace has given the go-ahead for its 10th flight in 2015: the 10 November dual-passenger mission with Ariane 5 from the Spaceport in French Guiana.

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first structural test model (STA) of the Orion service module, to NASA’s Plum Brook Station test centre in Sandusky, Ohio (USA).

Security upgrades developed by Lockheed Martin for the current ground control system of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS), are now fully operational to safeguard data and ensure satellite availability.

A group of Russian companies are currently developing a radar satellite system for the country’s Defense Ministry. According to the project design, the system will comprise five spacecraft. The first launch is scheduled for 2019.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting manoeuvres that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69. This ancient body in the Kuiper Belt is more than 1.6 billion kilometers beyond Pluto; New Horizons will explore it if NASA approves an extended mission.