Satellite News

On its ninth launch of 2015 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, and the fifth Ariane 5 mission, Arianespace will launch Sky Muster for Australian operator nbn and ARSAT-2 for Argentine operator ARSAT.

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) said it will support the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) on the ground as well as in space.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced that the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has executed the next year of the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) programme under the NGA EnhancedView contract starting on 1 September 2015.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said Iran and France will soon start negotiations on building and launching of a national satellite, Iranian news agency IRNA reported.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced its Space Components Division (SCD) shipped the fuel and oxidiser tanks to Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, California for integration into NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These tanks will provide propulsion for JWST.

Airbus Defence and Space, prime contractor for NASA’s Orion space vehicle’s European Service Module (ESM), has completed four large titanium tanks for the module that will be delivered for initial testing. The tanks are the first hardware to be supplied for the Orion space vehicle.

NewSpace Systems, a South African Western Cape-based company which specialises in the manufacture of satellite components, just launched their own European Space Agency standard Clean Room facility in the wake of securing 22 contracts from 11 countries world-wide in their second year of operation.

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to develop and produce the thermomechanical systems for the European Service Module (ESM) on the Orion spacecraft.