Satellite News

Vietnam plans to take full control of its two communication satellites from next month after years with foreign assistance in running the systems, according to the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT).

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE, will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant planet and its large ocean-bearing moons, ESA announced.

NASA’s Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturised electrospray propulsion technologies that it says could revolutionise small satellite propulsion systems.

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Arabsat and Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has signed a strategic commercial agreement to utilise the new Badr-7 satellite currently under construction expected to be launched by the end 2015.

ESA and NASA have joined forces to ensure that Sentinel-2 and the newly launched Landsat Data Continuity Mission offer compatible data products. ESA is currently developing the two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.

The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, announced the results of its analysis related to the imminent approach of the DA14 asteroid, concluding that there are no satellites threatened by the asteroid.