ViaSat Inc. results Q3 FY 2019 – Satellite News Digest
Viasat announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021004
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Viasat announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021004
NASA and its Commercial Crew Program providers Boeing and SpaceX have agreed to move the target launch dates for the upcoming inaugural test flights of their next generation U.S. spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020700
Orbex has announced that it is partnering with UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to carry an experimental payload on its maiden flight from Scotland in 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020701
The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020702
Arianespace has not accepted the offer by the Russian Lavochkin Research and Production Association to "patch up" the rupture in the pipeline that supplies helium to fuel tanks of the Fregat booster on the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket at the Guiana space centre, a source in the rocket and space industry was quoted as saying by…
The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded a C$15 million contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) for development of multipurpose microsatellites to support Arctic surveillance. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020601
It’s been over a month since engineers have heard from the pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft known collectively as MarCO , which followed NASA’s InSight to the Red Planet. At this time, the mission team considers it unlikely they’ll be heard from again. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020602
The Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites, developed and built by Thales Alenia Space, is now fully operational. Following eight successful launches between January 2017 and January 2019, a total of 75 Iridium NEXT satellites are now fully deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO). More specifically, the constellation operates with 66 satellites at an altitude of…
Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4, GSAT-31; Date: 5 February 2019, 2101 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. HS-4/SGS-1 was deployed into geostationary transfer orbit 27 minutes after lift-off, followed by GSAT-31 15 minutes later. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020500
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Kratos RT Logic subsidiary successfully demonstrated the ability to roam among heterogeneous networks and optimise wideband satellite communications (SATCOM) with Enterprise Management and Control (M&C). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020501