WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin says it lost $410 million on the first three commercial satellites built on its new LM2100 platform, including the JCSAT-17 satellite Arianespace launched Feb. 18 on an Ariane 5 rocket. The other two commercial satellites built at a loss were Arabsat-6A and SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4, two Arabsat […]
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WASHINGTON — Arianespace completed its third launch of the year Feb. 18, sending a Japanese communications satellite and a South Korean weather satellite into geostationary transfer orbits. An Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at 5:18 p.m. Eastern from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana with Sky Perfect JSAT’s […]
To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here. TOP STORIES Surrey Satellite Technology Limited has appointed a new managing director. Phil Brownnett, currently the managing director of Airbus Defence and Space’s U.K. Geo Intelligence business, will take over as head of the smallsat […]
SpaceX will launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets on December 16, with the launch window opening from 19.10 EST (00.10 GMT December 17). Elon Musk’s reusable rocket will be carrying two loads which will be released when it gets to orbit. One satellite is the JCSAT-18 satellite which was […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched a communications satellite shared by two companies Dec. 16 using a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket lifted off at 7:10 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and deployed the JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit 33 minutes later. The Falcon 9’s first-stage booster, previously used […]
WASHINGTON — Kacific Broadband Satellites, a startup that ordered a geostationary satellite from Boeing despite reservations about the absence of U.S. export-credit financing, on Dec. 5 said it tapped European and Asian lenders to refinance loans used to buy the satellite. Kacific’s first satellite, Kacific-1 launches Dec. 15 on a […]
WASHINGTON — LeoSat, a company that was seeking to operate a constellation of 78 to 108 satellites for high-speed internet, has suspended operations due to a lack of investment. Mark Rigolle, CEO of LeoSat, told SpaceNews Nov. 13 that the company laid off all 13 employees — himself included — in […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Commercial operators have been known to share satellites, splitting the costs of building and launching a big geostationary comsat, like Kacifc and Sky Perfect JSAT did when they ordered a Boeing 702 due to launch this year. GEOshare is trying to build on that willingness to […]