Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-23M (ISS Progress 55); Date: 9 April 2014, 1526 UTC, Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The unmanned Progress vessel docked with the ISS almost exactly 6 hours after lift-off, using the automatic Kurs system.

Preparations of the Angara Launch System for flight tests are underway at the Plesetsk Launch Base, Russia.

India’s Mars Orbiter Spacecraft has crossed the half-way mark of its journey to the Red Planet along the designated helio-centric trajectory.

Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona have delivered the primary imaging instrument of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The new Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, has been successfully integrated within the heart of the telescope, known as the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM). The integration completes the suite of four instruments aboard JWST.

Lockheed Martin and NewSat Limited have successfully completed a comprehensive technical review of Jabiru-1, Australia’s first commercial Ka-band satellite.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, the contractor selected to supply the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with a Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite-2 (GOSAT-2) for launch in 2017, signed a contract to officially begin developing the satellite system.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a contract from the Flight Opportunities Program Office at Armstrong Flight Test Center to develop propulsion technology for miniature satellites that could possibly lower cost and accelerate mission schedules.