Satellite News

NASA said it is continuing to invest in concepts that may one day revolutionise how we live and work in space with the selection of five technology proposals for continued study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.

The Rosetta comet chaser developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency (ESA) has arrived at its destination after flying for more than 10 years and travelling more than six billion kilometres. It is now ready to swivel into an orbit around the comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

AsiaSat 8 satellite is successfully performing post-launch manoeuvres according to plan, its manufacturer SSL said.

COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) contract to deliver C and Ku Band Multiplexers and Coaxial and Waveguide switches to a high throughput satellite.

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a communications satellite to Intelsat S.A. Intelsat 36 is designed to provide media and content distribution services in Africa and South Asia .

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it has taken into storage Lybid, a telecommunications satellite that was built for Ukrainian satellite operator Ukrkosmos.

AsiaSat 8, the latest communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications company Limited (AsiaSat), is scheduled for launch at 0525 UTC on 5 August by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, USA.

The fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite in the launch order is progressing in its final testing phase, having successfully cleared acoustic tests. Now the satellite moves on to thermal vacuum testing, which is the last step in its environmental trials.