News & Events

Globalstar, Inc. announced financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 December 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019030303

Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019030304

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programme name was officially changed to the National Security Space Launch programme on 1 March. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019030305

"Maxar Technologies, which will lay off more than 200 people as it seeks to return to profitability following a $1.26 billion loss, says the struggling satellite division it decided to keep will need to bring in roughly $500 million annually to break even." (Space News) http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019030306

"Israel’s Beresheet, the Jewish state’s first lunar spacecraft, successfully completed another maneuver on Wednesday at around 9:30 p.m. Israel time, according to a release by Space IL. … Earlier in the week, Beresheet experienced some technical difficulties and had to cancel a maneuver planned for the spacecraft." (Jerusalem Post) http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019030307

The first six spacecraft produced by the OneWeb Satellites joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus were successfully deployed into a circular low Earth orbit of approximately 1,000 km (altitude) and 87,77 deg. inclination on Arianespace’s first Soyuz mission of 2019 (and the launch services company’s second mission overall this year). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022800

D-Orbit, an Italian service provider for the New Space sector, signed a contract with Planet, a US-based private Earth imaging company, for the launch and deployment of six Dove-series satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022801

Rocket: Soyuz 2-1a; Payload: six OneWeb satellites; Date: 27 February 2019, 2137 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The flight lasted one hour and 22 minutes. The first two satellites were deployed 63 minutes after liftofffollowed by the last four 82 minutes after liftoff. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022700

After seven years of development at the Technical University Dresden, the spin-off Morpheus Space has successfully ignited the world’s smallest ion beam thruster on the "UWE-4" nano-satellite. Four of the thumb-sized thrusters are located on UWE-4, the 1 kg nano-satellite of the University of Würzburg. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022701

OneWeb announced that it has secured its first customer contracts to deliver its high speed, low latency, global communications services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022702