Intelsat has updated its C-band transition plan with the FCC. On 14 August it outlined additions to the launch schedule for replacement satellites, including an intention to add non-C-band payloads to some of the new units, as well as a re-evaluation of the satellite...
SES, the Europe-based operator of a global satellite fleet, has selected two American launch companies to fly its C-band replacement satellites. The contracts, announced on 5 August 2020, outline a single dual-payload launch for United Launch Alliance (ULA) and up to...
On 3 July 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), on-behalf of the European Commission, issued development contracts for six missions that will compliment and enhance the Copernicus Earth observation programme. These initial contracts, valued at EUR€2.55 billion...
With the Coronavirus Covid-19 now paralysing the world – and, by the way, parts of its space industry – let us hope that some good comes of all of this and that governments can learn from it. In fact, they would have been wiser to have learned from two...
Whether you call it coronavirus or COVID-19 you cannot avoid this “Elephant in the Room”, which is affecting much of industry and commerce, the world’s health systems and even basic human relationships. And space has not been insulated from the virus. Despite a tardy...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his Cabinet in February. While many of the moves had been telegraphed – mainly to the Daily Telegraph (the Conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper) – other newspapers noted that Johnson (and his adviser Dominic Cummings)...
