by David Todd | Jan 27, 2021 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Space Insurance
Sirius-XM Radio announced on 27 January that its SXM-7 satellite, which was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on 13 December 2021, had suffered a major failure on its payload. Seradata understands that a failure during in-orbit testing resulted in the loss one of the...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 18, 2020 | commercial launch services, Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
Intelsat has brought to an end its extraordinary year of satellite and launch orders. On 17 September, it placed a construction order for its seventh (and likely final) C-band replacement satellite GALAXY 13R – previously known as GALAXY 37. SSL, part of Maxar, was...
by David Todd | Jan 31, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
SSL, the former Space Systems/Loral spacecraft construction company owned by Maxar, has decided to withdraw from its construction contract with Maxar spin-off Space Infrastructure Services LLC (SIS) to build the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS)...
by David Todd | Jan 17, 2019 | Satellites
Maxar Technologies, the firm which was formerly known as MDA, that holds the Earth Observing firm Digitalglobe and the satellite manufacturer SSL (aka Space Systems Loral) as its main subsidiaries, has had its CEO Howard Lanch resign four months short of three years...
by David Todd | Dec 18, 2018 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Having ordered a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for a satellite, start up satellite operator Ovzon has ordered a small GEO communications satellite called Ovzon 3. As it eyes giving a mobile broadband service to the Middle East and African region, Ovzon ordered the...
