The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system has successfully inserted the MEASAT-3a communications satellite (formerly MEASAT-1R) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, at the end of a mission originating from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.

The Spanish communications service provider and satellite operator Hispasat S.A. and OHB-System AG, a subsidiary of the European space and technology group OHB Technology AG (Prime Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), have today signed a contract for the construction and testing of the satellite for the first Small GEO mission at the Paris Air Show, which is currently taking place.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces Ken Bowersox as vice president of the newly formed Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance Department.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL) and the world’s leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been selected to provide a new satellite to Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services.

The European space agency ESA and the bidder consortium led by OHB-System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) have signed a contract for sourcing long-lead items for satellites for the future European Galileo navigation system at the Paris Air Show today.

Boeing [NYSE: BA] engineers and technicians recently completed several complex payload-processing tasks - including preparing the final two science platforms for Japan's Kibo laboratory - ahead of Space Shuttle Endeavour's upcoming mission to the International Space Station.