19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... are 91 spacecraft based on the 1300 currently on orbit for commercial operators – more than any other model of communications satellite. Maxar’s 1300-class spacecraft platform is also the basis for NASA’s Psyche mission, which will explore...
19 May 2021
Nigeria appoints new space agency head
...signatory on the peaceful uses of Outer Space Treaty and currently has three satellites in the orbit - one communication satellite and two remote sensing satellites. Prior to his appointment as Director-General, Dr Shaba was the Director of Strategic...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... payloads were launched into low Earth and geostationary orbit (LEO and GEO). Many of these were communications satellites with the potential to earn high revenues over their operational lifetime. However, there was initially little...
31 March 2017
Success for SpaceX's first 'flight-proven' launch
...Success for SpaceX as the company is the first to use a ‘flight-proven’ rocket to deliver SES’s commercial communications satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The SES-10 mission marked an historic milestone as SpaceX seeks to prove that...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
... March 5 came crashing back down to Earth. The rocket was carrying Shijian-18, a seven metric tonne experimental communications satellite that was to be placed into geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above Earth. Great expectations are riding on the...
12 February 2020
Planning is submitted for Europe’s first vertical launch site
... pave the way for the latest generation of small communications satellites to be launched into an Earth orbit from the ...time, up to 12 launches a year of small, commercial satellites that will typically be used for Earth observation could be made ...
