Es’hailSat of Qatar has selected the Japanese spacecraft manufacturer, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO), to build the ES’HAIL 2 communications satellite for the firm. The spacecraft is expected to use the DS-2000 bus design. The Es’hailSat firm plans to operate the satellite over 26 degrees East in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) where it secured Ku-band rights from Arabsat.
Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) to build ES’HAIL 2 spacecraft
About Seradata
Seradata produce the renowned SpaceTrak Launch & Satellite Database. Trusted by 100 of the world’s leading Space organisations, SpaceTrak is a fully queryable database used for market analysis, failure/risk assessment, spectrum analysis and space situational awareness (SSA).
For more information go to www.seradata.com/spacetrak
Related Articles
French new-space company Unseenlabs has ordered another six 6U-CubeSats from nanosatellite manufacturer and operator GomSpace, to expand its growing fleet. Read more
The month of September 2022 saw a spate of small satellite orders (plus some shared rides) made. These included: US Read more
China launched to space rockets on 26 September 2022. The first up was the Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) Y68 launch Read more
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2332 GMT on 24 September 2022. Read more
The Chinese successfully launched a Kuaizhou 1A vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, Shanxi Province, China at 2255 GMT on Read more
ULA successfully launched a Delta IV Heavy (DELTA IVH-4050H (Upgraded) from Vandenberg, California, USA at 2225 GMT on 24 September Read more
[caption id="attachment_111786" align="alignright" width="427"] The Long March 2D rocket lifts-off carrying its payload to orbit. Courtesy of Xinhua/ Wang Heng[/caption] Read more
After several attempts were called off due to bad weather, SpaceX finally successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Read more