Satellite News

China has handed over full control of the Chinese-built Miranda satellite (a.k.a. VRSS-1) over to Venezuela, Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology Manuel Fernandez announced.

Harris Corporation (HRS) has delivered five simulators that will help the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) user community to prepare for the advent of a new generation of geostationary weather satellites.

Both satellites launched yesterday aboard an…Read more

Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems and the international company AOneSat Communications AG signed a contract for the delivery of a telecommunications satellite.

Keith Attwood, CEO of e2v and Vladimir Nevolin, deputy director of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI) signed a contract for the first phase of a multi-million pound project. The contract is for the supply of a high performance imaging sub-system to equip the ultraviolet spectrographs on board the World Space Observatory – Ultraviolet (WSO-UV).

Building on a 30-year relationship, EUMETSAT and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) signed a long-term co-operative agreement, ensuring continued space-based operational monitoring of weather, ocean and climate.

Arianespace’s fourth Ariane 5 mission of…Read more

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that the…Read more