Airbus SE results 2018 – Satellite News Digest
Airbus SE reported consolidated financial results for 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021404
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Airbus SE reported consolidated financial results for 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021404
Eutelsat Communications and Afghanistan Broadcasting System (ABS) have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for video capacity on the Eutelsat 53A satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021405
The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018. After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity on 12 February, to no avail. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021300
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy’s planetary systems. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021301
GOES-17 is now operational as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES West satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021302
Arianespace and Open Cosmos, a company providing turnkey space missions, announced that they have signed a contract for the launch of an innovative CubeSat deployment solution. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021200
Spaceflight announced it will launch two payloads on its first rideshare mission to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission is scheduled for no earlier than mid-February 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launching from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021201
The U.S. Department of Defense will evaluate the certification for SpaceX launch vehicles to determine whether the U.S. Air Force complied with certain guidelines, according to a memo. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021202
Eutelsat Communications has signed simultaneous multi-year contracts with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation and the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters for video capacity on its Eutelsat 8 West B satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021203
China announced that it is developing a modified version of the Chang Zheng-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021100