Three days after the launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich from California, ESOC, ESA’s space Operations Center handed over flight operations of the Copernicus ocean-monitoring satellite to EUMETSAT. ESOC started the […]
Satellites
Eutelsat Kicks Off The Retail Distribution Of konnect Satellite Broadband
Leveraging the availability of the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite, Eutelsat Communications’ (Paris:ETL) (Euronext Paris: ETL) new direct arm, konnect, has kick-started the retail distribution of next-generation satellite broadband across Europe and […]
Sentinel-6 Soars Spacewards Via SpaceX Send-Off
At 18:17 (09:17 US Pacific time) on November 21, 2020, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air […]
Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Association’s Schriever Chapter #147, is proud to sponsor the 6th Annual Schriever Space Futures Forum, a live, virtual […]
Viasat Picks Up All Of Euro Broadband Services From Eutelsat… Including KA-SAT
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) will strengthen their European presence by purchasing the remaining 51% share of Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI), the wholesale broadband services business created as part of Viasat’s former partnering […]
Astroscale’s End-Of-Life Services Satellite, ELSA-D, To Launch In March Of 2021
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that the firm’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, […]
Thales Alenia Space CHIMES In With The European Space Agency (ESA)
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), has signed a 90 million euros first tranche contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to […]
hiSky Launching Services Via Spacecom’s AMOS-17
hiSky Ltd. has partnered with Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC) to launch services via the AMOS-17 satellite. As an affordable network operator, hiSky has brought innovative technology to the […]
Two New Orbital Transfer Vehicles Being Developed By Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight Inc. is developing two, additional, next-generation orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that will debut in 2021. The first one — Sherpa-FX — will fly on a fully dedicated rideshare mission […]
Apollo Fusion’s Electric Propulsion System To Empower Spaceflight’s OTVs
Apollo Fusion, Inc. has been selected as the electric propulsion system for Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTE. The Sherpa-LTE is a high specific impulse (Isp), xenon propellant, electric propulsion orbital transfer vehicle […]