Telecommunications satellite BRIsat, owned by the Royal Bank Rakyat Indonesia and built by American company Space Systems Loral, has been successfully launched form the French Guyana with IberEspacio thermo-structural panels technology.
The 20 kW class telecommunications satellite Intelsat 31 was successfully put in orbit by a Proton rocket and has performed post-launch maneuvers according to plan. IberEspacio has provided two high temperature thermo-structural radiator panels.
Alejandro Torres, General Manager of IberEspacio, has been one of the invited speakers at the 44th Space Congress that took place at Cape Canaveral, Florida, from May 24th-26th.
The European global navigation satellite system now counts 14 satellites in orbit thanks to the successful launch of Galileo 13 and 14 on board a Soyuz.
The telecommunications satellite BRIsat has arrived to Kourou for its preparation for launch. The satellite, built by Space Systems Loral, will be put in orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket next 8th June.
The Sentinel 1B has been launch from Kourou becoming the fourth satellite in orbit of the Sentinel European Earth Observation satellite constellation. IberEspacio contributes to the mission with the thermal control system of the Optical Laser Communiactions Terminal.
The Earth Observation satellite Sentinel 3A started yesterday to send pictures taken with the Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI). One of those pictures is a georgeous image of Portugal and Spain.
The japanese X-ray astronomical observation satellite Astro-H was launched successfully on top of a H-2A from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, yesterday at 17:45 local time.
The Earth Observation satellite Sentinel-3A, the third of the Europe’s Copernicus environment programme, was successfully launched from Plesetsk, Russia, by a Rockot yesterday at 17:57 GMT.
The first European Data Relay System (EDRS) laser node, the most ambitious telecom programme to date, has been launched successfully from Kazakhstan.