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There is international consensus that space activities need to be managed to minimize debris generation and the risk that debris may pose. But how do these guidelines translate into engineering...

Via Satellite interviews the new blood coming into the satellite industry to get a glimpse of their aspirations and impressions for satellite.

[Via Satellite 01-06-2016] China successfully launched its second telecommunication technology test satellite on Jan. 5 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Xinhua, China’s sate-run news...

[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] SpaceX is targeting return to flight from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) with the Iridium NEXT launch on January 8. Over the past four months, officials...

[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] Following 11 successful launches in 2016, Arianespace reported on Jan. 4 that the launch company expects to maintain a sustained launch pace in 2017, with 12 planned...

[Via Satellite 01-04-2016] SKY Perfect JSAT has struck a contract with Arianespace to launch the satellite company’s JCSAT-17 communications satellite. JCSAT 17 will be launched aboard Arianespace’s Ariane-5 launch vehicle...

Millennials from across the satellite industry predict what the market and the spacecraft themselves might look like 30 years from now.

[Via Satellite 12-29-2016] The launch of the EchoStar XXI satellite has been delayed, International Launch Services (ILS) confirmed Dec. 28. Khrunichev has informed ILS of the need to postpone the...

[Via Satellite 12-22-2016] Arianespace successfully launched two Space Systems Lloral (SSL)-built satellites on the seventh flight of its Ariane 5 heavy-lift vehicle in 2016 — and the company’s 11th overall this year...

[Via Satellite 12-22-2016] Millennium Space Systems has completed the development of and shipped its first Altair satellite, a pre-production pathfinder spacecraft designed to demonstrate advanced avionics, guidance and control, additive...