Day: May 24, 2024

Eutelsat Group Extends Partnership with InterSAT to Expand its Pan-African Satellite Services.

In a news report released by Eutelsat Group, the satellite operator has extended its partnership with InterSAT, one of Africa’s leading satellite service providers, to support InterSAT’s growth in the Pan-African enterprise and retail segments. In addition, InterSAT will incorporate Ku-Band capacity over Central and Eastern Africa from Eutelsat’s EUTELSAT 70B satellite in this latest …

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Asteroid-Bound Psyche Spacecraft Fires Up Ion Thrusters, Starts Cruising Through Space.

NASA’s mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar system under the power of solar-electric propulsion. The launch of the spacecraft, which is also called Psyche, on October 13, 2023 gave it enough of an initial boost to take it across more than …

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China Launches Test Satellite To Very Low Earth Orbit.

China launched four satellites on Tuesday (May 21) to test out new technologies. A Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket lifted off into clear skies above Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 GMT, 12:15 p.m. Beijing time) on Tuesday. The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) confirmed launch success shortly …

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