Satellite News

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Kratos Integral Systems Europe (Kratos ISE) subsidiary has delivered a new Satellite Business Intelligence (SBI) dashboard to Es’hailSat, the Qatar satellite company. The SBI dashboard will enable the operator to leverage advanced Big Data technology to better manage service levels and optimise satellite operations.

The Arianespace heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission with telecommunications satellites for two leading Asia-Pacific operators received the “green light” for its lift-off from the Spaceport in French Guiana on 11 September. The rocket will carry Malaysian-based Measat’s Measat-3b in the upper position under Ariane 5’s fairing and Optus 10 for Australia’s Optus as the lower passenger.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that Al Yah Satellite Communications company PrJSC (Yahsat) has awarded the company a firm contract to build the Al Yah 3 Ka-band communications satellite.

Boeing has received its first commercial order for the 502 Phoenix small satellite from HySpecIQ of Washington, D.C. The satellites will carry the commercial remote sensing industry’s first high-resolution hyperspectral payload, capable of providing spectral imaging fidelity that far exceeds what is currently available.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a EUR45 million contract to deliver important subsystems and equipment for the two GEO-KOMPSAT-2 (GK2, Geostationary Earth Orbit Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) platforms.

The “Astrix 1090″ fibre-optic gyro (FOG) inertial reference unit has been certified as “space-qualified” in an internal review by the Electronics Business Line of Airbus Defence and Space.

Thales Alenia Space is upgrading and expanding its range of Spacebus geostationary telecommunications satellites. They are available in versions with both chemical and hybrid propulsion subsystems.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Kypros Satellites (Kyprosat) have signed an agreement to collaborate on a turnkey, low-cost geostationary telecommunications satellite system.