by Matt Wilson | Mar 30, 2020 | Finance, History, Satellites, Seradata News
OneWeb LLC, a major player in the nascent LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite communications market, put itself into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a New York court on 27 March 2020. It follows failure to negotiate additional funding, which was partly blamed on the “market... 
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX is looking ahead of the Coronavirus outbreak as it lands yet another launch contract. The global communications satellite operator Intelsat has chosen to launch its Maxar (SSL)-built Intelsat-40e communications satellite via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The... 
by Matt Wilson | Mar 10, 2020 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
At SATELLITE 2020 in Washington D.C., Northrop Grumman’s Joseph Anderson talked about the company’s planned second in-orbit servicing mission. This follows the recent successful docking of MEV-1 (Mission Extension Vehicle) and its target Intelsat 901 in... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 28, 2020 | History, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The first-of-its-kind docking of a service spacecraft with its client spacecraft, in this case of MEV-1 with Intelsat 901, occurred at 0715 GMT on 25 February 2020. This was the first time that two commercial satellites had docked together in-orbit. It was also... 
by David Todd | Feb 3, 2020 | NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
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...
