NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project 14 months before the golf-cart sized rover, which has already been completed, was set to launch. The news, announced in a teleconference on 17 July, sent shockwaves around the space...
SES has made an agreed bid of US$3.1 billion in cash for rival satellite operator Intelsat. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2025, will see two of the ‘Big Four’ fixed-satellite service (FSS) commercial satellite operators merge to form a mega GEO...
Matthew Wilson, Seradata Reporter and Data Manager, reports from the Satellite 2024 conference in Washington, US, starting with the opening day keynote made by Intelsat’s CEO David Wajsgras David Wajsgras, CEO of Intelsat, began his address with a reminder of the US...
Farah Ghouri looks back at the life, barely begun, of OSAM-1 after the refuelling demonstration mission is axed by NASA The idea for OSAM-1 (On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1), first known as RESTORE-L, was conceived in 2015, in a bid to help extend...
Farah Ghouri finds out the status of the Lunar Pathfinder project, why the cubesat bubble is far from bursting, and how it will be “quite interesting” to discover life beyond Earth, from Sir Martin Sweeting, chief executive of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited...
Echostar completed its acquisition of its sister company DISH Network, a US satellite TV provider, on the cusp of the new year. The deal, first announced in August 2023, has brought together DISH Network’s satellite technology and 5G network with EchoStar’s satellite...
