Eutelsat is renegotiating euro-based television broadcast contracts with Russian customers whose satellite bandwidth costs have doubled in the past six months with the collapse of the Russian ruble.
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4,287 results found Sort by:NASA Prepares New Sounding Rocket Motor For First Test Firing
NASA engineers are preparing a new Peregrine sounding rocket motor for its first hot-fire test set for February 10 in the east test area at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center […]
Small Rocket Startups Eye Mega-constellation Opportunity
A groundswell of interest in large constellations of small satellites, some backed by financial heavyweights, has buoyed the hopes of aspiring small rocket makers.
NASA Announces Sixth Round of CubeSat Space Mission Candidates
NASA has selected 14 small satellites from 12 states to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The proposed CubeSats come from universities […]
Dawn’s View of Ceres Continues To Improve
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, on approach to dwarf planet Ceres, has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of this mysterious world. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, […]
Editorial | Constellation Choir Singing Familiar Tune
What began as a small but promising nexus between space and the sprawling technology incubator known as Silicon Valley has exploded into something much larger with the rush of filings for bandwidth to deploy large constellations of low-orbiting broadband satellites.
Avanti Communications Asks Investors for Patience
Broadband satellite fleet operator Avanti Communications is asking investors for more patience as the company lines up customers in its Europe, Middle East and African coverage areas and awaits a major revenue boost this year.
NASA/NIA Announce 2015 RASC-AL Competition Finalists
Sixteen teams have made it to the finals of a NASA and National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) engineering design competition that challenged university students to think about the conditions astronauts […]
DoD Official Raises Possibility of Missing Bugs in Initial GPS 3 Craft
Delays on the ground segment for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation positioning, navigation and timing satellite system could prevent the detection of technology or design bugs in the spacecraft until as many as eight are already on orbit.
Intelsat Decommissions Shuttle-rescued Satellite
Intelsat has officially decommissioned the Intelsat 603 satellite, whose claim to fame was having been rescued by spacewalking NASA astronauts after being launched into a bad orbit nearly 25 years ago.