Hawaii is joining hundreds of other countries in developing their satellite industry as the University of Hawaii prepares for its very first satellite launch. The event will take place at the U.S Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. The Hawaiian satellite, named HiiakaSat, was designed by faculty members and students from Kauai Community College. […]
Swiss company S3 is currently developing an unmanned suborbital mini shuttle based on an earlier European designed called Hermes. The project aims on building a spaceport that allows small satellites orbit access that is inexpensive. Instead of using a rocket launch vehicle, Swiss Space Systems plans on using an Airbus A300 that will take the […]
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), a leading operator of communication spacecraft, has signed an agreement with GeoMetWatch to host the first of six Sounding & Tracking Observatory for Regional Meteorology (STORMTM) instruments aboard a new satellite which is scheduled to be launched in 2016, occupying the orbital slot 122 degrees East. The sensor of STORMTM, […]
ATV Albert Einstein, the fourth spacecraft to service the International Space Station (ISS) is already on its final preparation phase to meet the scheduled launch this spring aboard the Ariane 5 vehicle. The European ATV, processed at the Spaceport’s S5 payload preparation building, has been moved fromthe facility’s S5C large preparation hall into its S5B […]
The first high-resolution Earth observation satellite of China, which is aimed at decreasing the occurrence of disasters, protecting resources and for national security purposes, will finally be launched into space this April. The satellite will also be used for urban transportation management, to support geographic and oceanic surveys, improve the nation’s ability to obtain high-resolution […]
International telecom equipment company Harris Corporation signed a contract with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to work together on developing and launching the Product Anomaly, Ticket, Relationship, Organization and Notification (PATRON) weather satellite. It is designed to help keep track and send reports of anomalies in critical weather satellite information. The Florida-based company said […]
Film theaters will change the history of watching motion pictures come summer of this year after the cinema coalition of three big theater chains (AMC, Regal, Cinemark) and five Hollywood studios (Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros.) announced that they are planning to begin satellite delivery of movies to theaters across the nation, followed […]
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) recently inked a satellite transmission deal with Neterra — a new direct-to-home (DTH), white-label, shared platform called “the W1,” that provides pay-tv services in Bulgaria. Under the agreement, Neterra has contracted two transponders on TSBc’s Thor 6 satellite, positioned at 1 degree west — known as one of the fastest growing […]
A small, active Russian satellite has suffered damage after the spacecraft collided with an orbiting space debris believed to have come from a destroyed Chinese satellite. The collision took place on January 22 when a piece of the Chinese Fengyun 1C satellite hit the 17-pound Russian small Ball Lens In The Space (BLITS) retroreflector satellite. […]
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