November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... into the modern technological age, the Mexican government purchased a series of communications satellites to service the country. Initially the Morelos 1 and 2, geostationary satellites operated between 1985 and 1998 to provide telephony, data, and...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
..., no one was entirely sure how Intelsat 901 would look, as there had never been an opportunity to see a communications satellite decades after launch. Would the solar panels have suffered damage? Would the insulation blankets be torn...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... support both current and future markets. The most lucrative sector of today’s commercial launch market is communications satellites (comsats) that operate in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) but are initially launched into geosynchronous transfer orbit...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... Republic of Azerbaijan, which, via its teleport in Baku, operates the Azerspace-1 and -2 communications satellites and the Azersky imaging satellite. In August 2009, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to establish and develop Azerbaijan’s space...
08 March 2016
Falcon 9 Successfully Launches SES-9
... Falcon 9 has successfully launched the SES-9 communications satellite on March 4, 2016, in spite of ...geostationary orbit. The spacecraft’s 81 Ku-band transponders will provide communications services for parts of Asia, Australia and the Middle East....
14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
... Atlantic Ocean onto the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship. The payload was JCSAT-16, a commercial communications satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 1:26 am ET, (5:26am UTC...
