Satellite News

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited announced that Spacecom, the operator of the Amos satellite fleet, has signed a contract for the exclusive use of AsiaSat 2.

Ducommun Incorporated announced that its Miltec Corporation subsidiary has been awarded a contract for Plug-And-Play (PNP) spacecraft technologies from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK Space Systems to manufacture, test, and deliver solar panels for ATK’s UltraFlex solar arrays. These solar arrays will be used to power the Orion spacecraft being developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company for NASA.
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NASA will launch small research satellites for several universities as part of the agency’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNA, mission. The satellites are manifested as an auxiliary payload on the Taurus XL launch vehicle for NASA’s Glory mission, planned for lift-off in late November.
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Eutelsat’s W2 satellite stopped broadcasting at around 2000 UTC on 26 January for unknown reasons.
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Since its launch on 2 November, numerous subsystems aboard ESA’s experimental Proba-2 satellite have been switched on one by one and their outputs checked.

Lockheed Martin announced that its new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) has achieved initial operational capability and is supporting the company’s satellite development programme activity.

SES World Skies has unveiled an updated strategic satellite fleet development plan, as well as a new naming convention for future additions to the fleet.