The Merah Putih communications satellite was successfully launched at 0518 GMT on 7 August 2018 from Cape Canaveral by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle. The launch reused the core first stage B1046 which was previously used for the launch of the Bangabandhu 1...
On 30 July, Canadian FSS operator Telesat signed an design agreement with an industrial consortium made up of European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space and the American manufacturing of Maxar Technologies, SSL. These two companies have decided to pool resources to...
Following the release of their Annual report, Eutelsat reports that it has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with European-satellite manufacturer Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) for the construction of two all-electric satellites. These two satellites...
Lifting off at 0140 GMT, 29 July, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People’s Republic of China, a Long March-3B/Y1 (CZ-3B/Y1) rocket carried two BEIDOU satellites in to orbit. The two units, BEIDOU-3M5/-3M6, form part of the indigenous Chinese Beidou...
The small satellite manufacturer GomSpace has reveived an order from Luxembourg based Kleos Space to build early example satellites as part of its planned commercial signals intelligence satellite constellation. The order is worth EUR€2.42 million (US$2.82 million)....
An Ariane 5 ES was launched from the Kourou launch site, in French Guiana, South America, at 1125 GMT on 25 July. It was carrying four Galileo satellites 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the navigation satelllite constellation to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). This was...
