A communications satellite that Maxar Technologies‘ SSL business produced for Telesat has started to conduct post-launch operations. The Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite deployed its solar... Read more
General Dynamics’ mission systems business has secured a contract from the U.S. Navy to update and maintain a satellite simulator at the Naval Postgraduate School. The simulator at the schoo... Read more
A communications satellite of Luxembourg-based SES took off Monday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX said Monday the rocket’s first sta... Read more
An updated configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to bring into orbit Bangladesh’s Bangabandhu 1 communicatio... Read more
SpaceX plans to launch on May 4 its updated Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to bring into orbit a Thales Alenia Space-built communications satelli... Read more
Satellite operating firm Spacecom has selected Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary to construct a new communications satellite that will add to the former’s AMOS COMSAT fleet. SSL... Read more
A communications satellite with a classified secondary payload took off March 6 aboard a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. The classif... Read more
Intelsat has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) a contract to build a communications satellite based on the latter company’s GEOStar-2 platform. Orbital ATK said Monday it will design, con... Read more
Maxar Technologies’ SSL business has received a contract to deliver a communications satellite to Brazil-based Embratel Star One. SSL said Monday the Star One D2 satellite will work to provi... Read more
SpaceX has deployed a Thales Alenia Space-built communications satellite into orbit for South Korean operator KTSAT using the Falcon 9 rocket. Thales said Monday the KOREASAT-5A satellite is... Read more
Iridium Communications plans to launch on Dec. 22 the fourth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The plann... Read more
Space Systems Loral has received additional funds from NASA through a contract modification to advance the design of a robotic platform for use in on-orbit satellite assembly work. SSL and i... Read more
A communications satellite that Boeing built for NASA lifted off Friday aboard a United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. Atlas V sent the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M into orbit afte... Read more
Airbus’ defense and space business has received a sole-source contract from the U.K. defense ministry to develop, test and launch a military communications satellite, Defense News reported M... Read more
SSL-Built Satellite for Indonesian Telecom Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers
A communications satellite SSL built for telecommunications firm PT Telkom Indonesia has started conducting post-launch maneuvers a day after its liftoff aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Merah Puti... Read more