Global satellite operator SES has ordered seven 702 bus/platform design satellites from Boeing to become a successor to its current O3b Medium Earth Orbit high capacity communications constellation. The new constellation is called O3b mPower and will be launched from...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
Would-be cubesat-constellation operator Sky and Space Global have announced that they have successfully demonstrated that nano-satellites can carry narrowband voice and message telephony between recently launched test satellites. Launched in June on an Indian PSLV...
In its first showing at Cape Canaveral, Florida, a five stage version of the Minotaur IV light launch vehicle lifted off at 0604 GMT on 26 August, carrying an experimental space surveillance satellite ORS-5 (SENSORSAT PRECURSOR) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). From its...
Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar company) revealed on 9 August that it had placed an order with American satellite manufacturer SSL for a third “Jupiter” satellite-based internet spacecraft, ECHOSTAR 24/JUPITER 3. The satellite will be capable of a total throughput...
UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has joined forces with In-Space Missions Ltd to design a concept for three small satellites, which would carry hosted technology tests and other payloads on request. SSTL has built and operated a UK space...
