The following is the statement issued from Los Angeles Air Force Base: The U.S. Space Force and its mission partners successfully launched the third Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III satellite at 4:10 p.m. EDT, June 30 from Space Launch Complex – 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite was carried […]
Archives for June 2020
SpaceX’s Successful Launch of GPS-III and in Honor of Colonel Thomas G. Falzarano
SpaceX enjoys another successful launch that took the U.S. Air Force’s third-generation navigation satellite up for the Global Positioning System (GPS). This is SpaceX’s 11th launch this year. The GPS III SV02 will join GPS III SV01 (launched December 2018), GPS III SV02 (launched July 2019) and other operational GPS satellites already in orbit. GPS […]
Thuraya and Telespazio are Partners for Global Distribution
Thuraya, and Telespazio have agreed to distribute its products and services worldwide. Thuraya is the mobile satellite services subsidiary of the UAE’s Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), and Telespazio, is part of a joint venture between Leonardo (67 percent) and Thales (33 percent). This agreement provides support to Telespazio’s customers in critical sectors such […]
Yahsat’s New Chief Financial Officer, He Comes from SES
Andrew Cole will be as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), a UAE-based global satellite operator. The Board of Directors determined his selection, and he will assume the position as of July 1. This appointment comes soon after the company boosted its leadership with four Emirati executive appointments to lead […]
Kleos Space SDR Payload for In-Space Missions Faraday-1 Smallsat
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX : KSS, Frankfort : KS1) is launching new data collecting technology (Software Defined Radio (SDR) payload) integrated in an In-Space Missions (In-Space) Faraday-1 spacecraft that will be launched into SSO from New Zealand by Rocket Lab as part of the company’s R&D program. The launch of this new technology is a […]
SES Provides Satellite Capacity to Joy Learning
The Joy Learning channel’s wide reach is driven by SES’s prime orbital position at 28.2 degrees East…
MSB Broadband VSAT Network to be Supplied by SpaceBridge
SpaceBridge Inc. has been selected by Satellite Communication Technologies – “SCT” — to supply an HTS Multiple Spot Beam (MSB) Broadband VSAT Network — the network to be supplied incorporates SpaceBridge’s ASAT™ System including its turnkey WaveSwitch™, Point-to-MultiPoint Satellite Broadband Platform technology. “SpaceBridge was selected following careful evaluation of a public tender and showed a […]
The Amazon Web Services + Capella Space Connection
Using AWS, Capella provides its customers with access to satellite data within minutes of its capture – far faster than…
Exolaunch Signs Launch Agreements with NanoAvionics for SpaceX Rideshare Missions
Under the contract, Exolaunch will provide launch, integration and deployment services to the NanoAvionics-built satellites…
Northrop Grumman Delivers Intelsat’s MEV-2 and Galaxy-30 to Launch Site
The Mission Extension Vehicle is the industry’s first satellite servicing vehicle, designed to dock with geostationary satellites…