Tag: satellite

The French Senate recently released a report shedding light on the escalating issue of satellite pollution and space debris. Written by Jean-Luc Fugit, MP and...

South African satellites could soon be in orbit providing almost continuous real-time remote radar sensing of the continent. This would give defence and intelligence...

2019 was a tough year for the South African space industry. Two of the leading space companies - Denel Spaceteq and Space Advisory Company...

A rocket from small-satellite launch firm Rocket Lab failed to reach orbit minutes after a successful liftoff from New Zealand on Saturday, the company...

Relativity Space has signed a contract with Iridium to launch six spare satellites for its communications network, the venture-backed rocket firm’s chief executive said,...

March 4, 2019 - ORPE Teсhnologiya named after A.G. Romashin, part of Rostec State Corporation, has manufactured the frameless body of the Egyptian EgyptSat-A spacecraft....

When Professor Robert van Zyl unveiled the first images transmitted by the ZACube-2 nanosatellite, he felt that all the hours that went into the...

Arianespace launched a rocket from French Guiana carrying Morocco's second earth observation satellite, the European launch company said. The satellite, named Mohammed...

Vricon, which provides data on terrain and feature elevation mainly to the defence sector, plans to market its services to governments in...

MzansiSat, which has its origins in the Stellenbosch-based StellSat, wants to launch South Africa's first-ever geo-stationary satellite in a private public partnership...

China plans to begin offering recoverable satellites to commercial users between 2019 and 2020, the official state news agency Xinhua reported. The country...

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA), the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), the State Space Corporation "Roscosmos" (ROSCOSMOS), the Indian Space Research...

China will begin construction of a permanent manned space station in 2019 after carrying out a successful in-orbit refuelling from its Tianzhou-1...

Airbus and the Namibia University of Science & Technology (NUST) have agreed to collaborate in establishing a Virtual Space Data Centre in...

SCS Aerospace Group, South Africa's biggest private satellite company, is showcasing a number of new home-grown satellite products at the Africa Aerospace...

China on Tuesday launched the world's first quantum satellite, which will help it establish "hack-proof" communications between space and the ground, state...

Global revenue from the satellite industry reached $208 billion in 2015, a 3 percent increase over 2014, a trade association report released...

Satellites operators have been longing for it for decades, and DARPA (once again?) is turning their dream into reality: on March 25,...

Taken from outer space, the satellite images show illegal loggers cutting a road into a protected area in Peru, part of a...

A satellite launched by North Korea at the weekend has now stabilized in its orbit around the Earth in a step forward...

North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying what it called a satellite, drawing renewed international condemnation just weeks after it carried out...

Secure communication has always been the most powerful tool when it comes to ensuring public safety and satellite, with its high levels...

Libya will build a satellite surveillance system with Italian expertise to help secure its borders, its defense minister said, part of Tripoli's...

More proof of South Africa's ability and willingness to be a player in specifically the international space arena comes from Denel's Overberg...

South Africa's first CubeSat micro-satellite, ZACube-01, is nearly complete and will be launched later this year. A second CubeSat will be unveiled...

South Africa's second satellite, SumbandilaSat, is no longer fulfilling its main purpose due to technical problems and is essentially beyond repair, its...

China has successfully carried out its second docking exercise yesterday between two unmanned spacecraft, 12 days after completing its first ever space...

At least two U.S. environment-monitoring satellites were interfered with four or more times in 2007 and 2008 via a ground station in...

Denel group CE Talib Sadik says the South African state arsenal is considering options to diversify its business to include space technology...

Engineers at SunSpace are working to fix problems with South Africa's second satellite, SumbandilaSat, which was damaged during a solar storm in...

Nigeria has successfully launched two satellites into space, which will be used for a variety of tasks, including security, agriculture and disaster...

Despite the advent of more than 20 optic fibre cable networks now reaching African shores, satellite services will continue to fulfil an...

Forecast International projects the worldwide civil and commercial remote sensing satellite market to be worth $16 billion over the 2010-2019 timeframe. Its...