The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems $30 million to refresh the AN/APX-123A(V) Common Transponder (CXP), which provides time-critical insights that help prevent friendly fire incidents. The refreshed CXP will […]
Transponders
Arianespace’s successful top secret launch for French military
The CSO-3 military observation satellite has been successfully launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane 6 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Carrying a very-high-resolution optical instrument built by Thales Alenia […]
Forrester’s Digest: Telesat retires satellite to graveyard slot
Some 24 years ago Telesat’s Anik F1 was launched. It has now been retired to a safe ‘graveyard’ orbit a few hundred kilometers above the normal geostationary arc. When Canada’s […]
NewSpace India Limited’s communications satellite is launched by SpaceX
On Monday, November 18 at 1:31 p.m. ET, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the NSIL GSAT-N2 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral […]
SpaceX to launch Koreasat-6A on Veterans’ Day to improve the positioning and navigation performance by GNSS
SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for launch of the Koreasat-6A mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-hour window […]
SpaceX launches EUTELSAT 36D providing more than 1100 broadcast channels in Africa, Russia and Europe
On Saturday, March 30 at 5:52 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the EUTELSAT 36D mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center […]
Thales Alenia Space to provide transponder for Turkey’s 1st lunar mission
Thales Alenia Space (joint venture between Thales, 67%, and Leonardo, 33%) has signed a contract with TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) to provide a Communication Transponder for AYAP-1, […]
UKTV and SES expand partnership with multi-year agreement
Viewers across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland will continue to enjoy their favorite TV programming as SES and UKTV agreed to extend their capacity agreement at SES’s […]
EM Solutions’ successful on-orbit satellite transponder text
EM Solutions has successfully completed the first of its system level tests for a transponder developed for Telesat’s LEO 3 demonstration satellite. Launched on July 18th, the satellite payload features […]
Spire Global solution enlightens dark shipping detection
Spire Global, Inc. , a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, reveal a dark shipping detection solution to track vessels that manipulate their reported position in order to conceal nefarious activities. The […]