Satellite News

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 16-day journey of more than 10.4 million km with a 1448 UTC landing on Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

On 30 July 2009, the Universal Rocket Module URM-1 for the prospective Angara family of launch vehicles was successfully test-fired at the Rocket & Space Industry Research & Testing Center near Moscow.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and JAXA President Keiji Tachikawa signed an agreement defining the terms of co-operation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

The DRAGONSat mission, which consists of the BEVO-1 and AggieSat-2 picosatellites, has possibly run into trouble.

Last month’s award of three US$30-million concept development contracts for the Space Fence programme will yield an outcropping of risk reduction activities designed to improve the overall space surveillance network, the U.S. Air Force said.

Three of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments were mounted on a test stand at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

SES S.A. reported financial results for the six months to 30 June 2009.

Eutelsat Communications reported financial results for its fiscal year 2008/2009, which ended on 30 June.