The design of the modern satellite has taken several different evolutionary paths during the past five years. They have both grown and shrunk. The variety of their capabilities has both...
[Satellite News 10-26-11] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk testified before the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the progress of its $75 million NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program...
[Satellite News 10-21-11] Arianespace has successfully launched its first Soyuz rocket from the European Spaceport and Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, the company confirmed Oct. 21. The debut...
[Satellite News 10-18-11] The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is questioning a joint U.S. Department of Defense and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) plan to spend $15 billion on United Launch...
[Satellite News 07-18-11] International Launch Services’ (ILS) first shared payload Proton-M rocket launch was a success, carrying the SES-3 and KazSat-2 telecommunications satellites July 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
[Satellite News 06-24-11] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) will announce next week which company has won the contract to launch its new Thor 7 satellite, TSBc CEO Cato Halsaa, told Satellite...
[Satellite News 06-16-11] China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC), which was established in 1980, is the sole commercial organization authorized by the Chinese government to provide satellites, commercial launch services...
[Satellite News 05-05-11] Speaking through an interpreter at the Space Symposium in Colorado last month, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CAST) Vice President Lei Fanpei hinted that Chinese space...
SES’s plan to launch its SES-8 satellite on a SpaceX vehicle may be the first sign that more competition — and possibly lower prices — could be coming to the...
[Satellite News 04-05-11] SpaceX unveiled its Falcon Heavy rocket and expects the first demonstration launch of the vehicle to take place at Vandenberg Air Force, Calif., as early as 2013,...