It has been reported that one of the first missions for the yet-to-launch Ariane 6 has been given to the rocket it is intending to replace. This mission concerns the first two Batch 3 satellites for the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). These...
HawkEye 360 was represented at SATELLITE 2020 by their Americas Sales Executive, Richard Holmquist. He was on the Hybrid Satellite-Based Solutions for the Maritime Market panel, talking about the niche that HawkEye is carving out for itself. HawkEye 360 is providing a...
Two launches occurred on 7 January 2020, signalling the start of a new year of launches. The first launch was early in the day and lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, United States of America, at 0219 GMT. The second mission took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch...
LeoSat Enterprises, a new space company based in the USA, has reportedly had to suspend operations after failing to raise enough interest in its US$50 million Series A round of funding. LeoSat was planning to launch a 100-strong constellation of interconnected,...
At 1743 GMT, on 4 November 2019, a Long March 3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) rocket lifted-off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southern China, carrying the BEIDOU-3 IGSO-3 satellite into orbit. This IGSO unit will travel to a Geosynchronous orbit, inclined at the...
Eutelsat, the European geostationary satellite operator and member of the global FSS “Big Four”, has placed orders for four nanosatellites. These would join the planned Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Internet of Things (IoT) constellation called ELO. The orders have been...
