During January, Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the signature of a launch services contract for the Euclid satellite. The Euclid mission will utilize either a Soyuz or an Ariane 62 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s...
US firm Maxar is celebrating the award to it of two orders. Maxar’s SSL division (the former Space Systems/Loral) has been awarded the construction order by the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) communications satellite operator Intelsat for its planned Intelsat...
An Isreali newspace company, NSLComm, has ordered its second satellite from CubeSat manufacturer AAC Clyde Space. The satellite, NSLSat-2, is the second 6U CubeSat the company has ordered from AAC Clyde. It is expected to launch in Q3 2021. The deal is valued at...
Following an announcement on 27 January 2019, QinetiQ is to build the ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) satellite for ESA. This project was initiated by the Royal Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy, and accordingly most...
The UK government has decided to allow the Chinese quasi state-run Huawei firm to build the planned 5G telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom. USA and the other three countries of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance (Canada, Australia,...
The Boeing-built Spaceway 1 spacecraft suffered an anomaly in December that caused “significant and irreversible” thermal damage to its batteries. The spacecraft’s owner DirecTV has informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it will be retiring the...
