#WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency announced Nov. 6 it will start a competition to develop commercial vehicles to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station by 2028, a step towards developing a crewed vehicle.
ESA’s member states, meeting in Seville, Spain, as part of the European Space Summit, endorsed a resolution directing the agency to take the first step in an effort patterned on NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program that would see European companies developing vehicles for cargo transport to the ISS and potentially future space stations. #Spacenews.
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#TAMPA, Fla. — #DishNetwork said its CEO Erik Carlson is resigning Nov. 12 ahead of the broadcaster’s merger with EchoStar, its sister company focused on providing broadband services from space, after posting a steep drop in #satellite #TV customers.
Announcing earnings results Nov. 6, Dish Network said net pay-TV subscribers fell by about 64,000 in the three months to Sept. 30 to 8.84 million, split between 6.72 million for its #DISH TV #satellite #broadcast business and 2.33 million for its SLING #TV streaming service.
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#TAMPA, Fla. — International regulators have given Ovzon another six months to provide services from its debut #satellite following a series of manufacturing and launch delays for the project, the Swedish satcoms provider announced Oct. 31.
The company risked losing priority spectrum rights for Ovzon 3 after a change in launch providers from Arianespace to #SpaceX helped put it on course to miss an earlier Dec. 31 ‘Bring into Use’ deadline, already extended a year following manufacturing delays at Maxar Technologies.
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