Astroscale to launch its first microsatellite on 28 November from Russia
Astroscale is "the first private company with a mission to secure long-term spaceflight safety by developing space debris removal services."
Launching its corporate headquarters in Singapore in 2013, R&D office in Japan...
Speedcast acquires UltiSat for up to US$100 million
Speedcast International, a company headquartered in Hong Kong and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, has completed acquisition of UltiSat, a US-based company. Both companies provide satellite communications solutions.
The deal was...
China launches first two BeiDou satellites of 2017
Yesterday, 5 Nov 2017, at 19:45 Beijing time (GMT+8), China successfully launched its first two BeiDou navigation satellites of 2017. This took place at Xichang Satellite Launch Center using the three-stage...
Infostellar invites antenna owners to join closed beta
Japan-based firm Infostellar, whose new flagship product StellarStation connects antenna owners with satellite operators, is now inviting antenna owners to participate in a closed beta test.
Initially planned for October, the closed...
Space saving measures: Addressing the debris problem
Earlier this month, the Space Security Index (SSI) 2017, an international research project headed by Canadian NGO Project Ploughshares, was released.
This is the 14th edition of the annual, covering the period...
SpaceX launches Koreasat-5A
SpaceX has successfully launched Koreasat-5A, a South Korean geostationary communications satellite, at 3:34pm EDT (19:34 GMT) on Monday, 30 October. The satellite was launched using a Falcon 9 from NASA’s Kennedy...
The first China-France Oceanography Satellite to be launched in 2018
A marine remote sensing satellite, the first satellite developed jointly by China and France, will be launched in the second half of 2018 with China's Long March launch vehicle, announced the...
AstroTerrace & BridgeSat awarded optical communications contract for JAXA’s ETS-9
Japan-based startup AstroTerrace and US-based BridgeSat have been awarded a contract by Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for Japan's Engineering Test Satellite 9 (ETS-9). NICT has been...
Russia & China to extend GLONASS-BeiDou collaboration
On October 13 2017, the 4th meeting of the Russia-China Committee for Projects on Strategic Cooperation in the field of Satellite Navigation was held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The meeting was...
JAXA launches final Michibiki satellite to commence GPS augmentation
This morning, at 7:01 JST (Japan Standard Time), Japan’s space agency JAXA launched Michibiki-4, the final satellite needed to make Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) operational.
Michibiki-4 was launched using Mitsubishi Heavy...
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