SAT Expo News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. – NASA announces that Ares I-X test rocket lifted off last Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B
until splash down of the rocket’s booster stage nearly 150 miles down range.
“This [...]

Iridium announced that  the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation has authorized Iridium Comunicaciones de Mexico to operate, provide and sell MSS (Mobile Satellite Services) to business, government and consumer markets in Mexico.
To support the new services, Iridium has partnered with Spacenet Communications Services de Mexico, acquiring access to Spacenet’s integrated communication solutions and a [...]

A conference on ‘The Ambitions of Europe in Space’ on 15 and 16 October brought together members of the European Parliament, Council, European Commission, agencies, industry, research entities, operators, financing institutions as well as interested people from the media and public.
In his opening speech, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, noted [...]

Four Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites scheduled to launch in 2010 have already missed their first pad date. The European version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to carry the four IOV satellites into orbit in two launches in November 2010 and early 2011, as announced by European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain [...]

After postponing a planned late-September launch of three new GLONASS-M satellites from the Baikonur space center, the Russian space agency Roscosmos set a new launch date of October 29. The launch was originally set for September 25 from the Bikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Roscosmos’s head, Anatoly Perminov, earlier reiterated that all six satellites required to [...]

Eutelsat Communications recently announced three great achievements with three different partnerships in Europe and middle east.

The European satellite operator achieved a further extension of its multi-year relationship with Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland’s leading pay-TV operator, with the renewal of a contract for three transponders at the HOT BIRD™ neighbourhood. This new lease with Eutelsat follows the [...]

23 – 25 November: SAT Expo Europe 2010 is presented in Moscow – press conference at the ITAR –TASS Press Agency (download the press release)
SAT Expo Europe will be presenting in Moscow, Russia, from 23rd to 25th November to the presence also of representatives of Roscosmos (the Russian Space Agency) and of the Russian [...]