Satellite News

The director-general of Russia’s Central Scientific Machine-Building Research Institute (TsNIImash), Gennadiy Raykunov, said that the country’s space sector’s quality control is outdated.

The operational life of Indonesian communication satellite Palapa D was shortened by about five years by the salvage manoeuvre that had become necessary, the spacecraft’s manufacturer said.

A problem seems to have befallen Eutelsat’s Eurobird 1 at 28.5 degrees East – the spacecraft is somewhat unstable and only partially operational after a brief outage.

A Proton M/Briz M rocket is to launch Telesat Canada’s Nimiq 5 on 17 September within a launch window that opens on 1919 UTC.

After the sudden failure of Chandrayaan 1, ISRO has decided to replace onboard computers on all future satellites, including the two spacecraft to launch next.

The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force has entered final testing at the company’s Sunnyvale, California/USA facilities.
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