Satellite News

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully deployed the two large deployable antenna reflectors (LDR) of the recently launched Engineering Test Satellite VIII, or Kiku No. 8.

Kazakhstan’s second telecommunications satellite, KazSat-2, will cover Kazakhstan, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and partially Afghanistan, Turkey, Iraq and Iran, according to Interfax.

JAXA has completed four firings of the recently launched ETS VIII’s apogee engines, bringing the spacecraft into a drift orbit.

Four companies are bidding for a contract to build Turkey’s Gokturk military reconnaissance satellite, Anadolu news agency reports.

Fengyun-2D, China’s recently launched second geostationary meteorological satellite, “has been in stable working conditions since the tests began on 14 December,” the China Meteorological Administration said.

Lockheed Martin announced that it has delivered ahead of schedule the flight structure for the third space vehicle in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programme to the company’s Mississippi facility.

China recently reported breakthroughs in space tracking and control technology, according to People’s Daily.

Eutelsat Communications and Alcatel Alenia Space have signed a contract under which Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture and deliver Eutelsat’s W7 communications satellite.