Eutelsat has provided an update, on 17 August, of its “transition plan” to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It has determined that it will not need to order a new GEO satellite to relocate its US C-band operations to the 4.0-4.2 GHz band. Instead, it...
Intelsat has updated its C-band transition plan with the FCC. On 14 August it outlined additions to the launch schedule for replacement satellites, including an intention to add non-C-band payloads to some of the new units, as well as a re-evaluation of the satellite...
The Hughes Network Systems portion of satellite operator EchoStar Corp., announced on 27 July 2020 that it would be investing a second US$50 million into OneWeb. This follows the auction win by a consortium lead by the UK Government and Bharti Global (an Indian...
The US Congress’ House Appropriations Committee is set to disappoint NASA over its budget request. NASA originally requested US$25.3 billion for the Fiscal Year 2021. Instead, the committee has decided to award US$22.6 billion to the administration, about the...
On 3 July 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), on-behalf of the European Commission, issued development contracts for six missions that will compliment and enhance the Copernicus Earth observation programme. These initial contracts, valued at EUR€2.55 billion...
OneWeb, the partially completed low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation, currently moribund in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has at least for now been rescued. For having already raised (and used) US$3.4 billion to build and launch 74...
