China successfully sent twin BeiDou navigation satellites into space on Aug. 25, aboard a single carrier rocket, according to news reports. The satellites are numbers 35 and 36 in the BeiDou navigation constellation. Read more about the launch here. GPS…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an augmented reality view of Galileo satellites in the sky close to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands. The image comes from a Galileo-focused satnav app for Android smartphones, developed by ESA engineers.…
China will launch 11 more BeiDou-3 satellites by the end of 2018, according to Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency. China has already launched eight BeiDou-3 satellites for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The satellites will…
China launched two more Beidou-3 satellites on Friday, the seventh and eighth of the third phase of the Beidou system. Launch via Long March 3B rocket took place at 01:56 Beijing time Friday (17:56 UTC Thursday) from the Xichang Satellite…
For his leadership in setting up the routine production of the Galileo satellites leading to Galileo constellation deployment, including thequadruple Ariane 5 launch in November 2016, Wolfgang Paetsch was named the winner of the 2017 Satellites Leadership Award. Since he…
