SA has awarded a contract worth €105 million to Astrium to build the second Sentinel-2 satellite. Once both are operational, this pair of satellites will provide global coverage every five days, delivering high-resolution optical imagery for GMES land and emergency services. Marking another milestone in Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, this [...]

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C14, in its 16th Mission launched 958 kg Oceansat-2 and six nano-satellites into a 720 km. intended Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO) on September 23, 2009. PSLV is a four-stage launch vehicle employing both solid and liquid propulsion stages. PSLV is the trusted workhorse launch Vehicle of ISRO. During Sep. [...]

Indiayesterday approved undertaking design and development of GSAT-11 Communication Satellite at a total cost of Rs. 500 crores. The GSAT-11 is an advanced communication satellite which will be a high capacity multi-beam Ku/Ka-band spacecraft. The launch of GSAT-11 will augment the Ku-band capacity considerably for telecommunication services in the country. With 16 beams in Ku-band [...]