by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The construction of the FLEX – the Fluorescence Explorer spacecraft which is to study “vegetation fluorescence” to determine global photosynthetic activity – has been officially ordered. Having been originally selected in Novemer 2015 as the...
by David Todd | Nov 21, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
An Arianespace-operated Vega launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana at 0142 GMT on 21 November 2018. Aboard was the 1,108kg MOHAMMED VI – B satellite is an Earth observation satellite built for the Kingdom of Morocco by...
by David Todd | Aug 21, 2018 | Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
The Russian spacecraft manufacturer, the ISS-Reshetnev Company has won a contract from the state-owned Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) – aka Komischeskaya Svyaz – to build two new telecommunications satellites, Express AMU-3 (Express-AMU3)...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 2, 2018 | Satellites, Seradata News
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...
by David Todd | Jun 1, 2018 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News
The communications satellite Apstar 6 operating over 134 degrees East in the geostationary arc, is reported to have had to turn off several of its transponders following a solar array fault discovered on 27 May 2018. As a result, the Hong Kong-based owner of the...
