Satellite News

OneWeb Satellites has inaugurated its assembly line in Toulouse to begin end-to-end validation, testing, and integration of its first satellites set for launch in just over nine months.

Northrop Grumman Corporation said reached another major milestone for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with the delivery of the mid-boom assemblies. The graphite-epoxy assemblies were designed, built, and tested by Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman business.

D-Sat, the first nanosatellite with the ability to remove itself from orbit in a direct and controlled way through a dedicated device at the end of its mission, was successfully launched on 23 June 2017, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India atop a PSLV rocket.