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Archive for February, 2018

Globalstar, Inc. results 2017

February 26th, 2018 by

Globalstar, Inc. announced financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 December 2017.

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Iridium Communications Inc. results 2017

February 26th, 2018 by

Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2017.

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Erroneous navigation input caused Ariane 5 trajectory deviation

February 25th, 2018 by

The Independent Enquiry Commission formed after the Ariane 5 launcher’s trajectory deviation during its 25 January 2018 mission issued its conclusions on Thursday, 22 February.

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Delay of the day I: Falcon 9/Hispasat 30W-6

February 25th, 2018 by

SpaceX postponed an attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket and the Spanish Hispasat 30W-6 (aka Hispasat 1F) communications satellite to perform tests on the rocket’s nose cone.

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Delay of the day II: H-2A/IGS Optical 6

February 25th, 2018 by

A bad weather forecast has prompted Japanese space officials to delay the launch of an H-2A rocket with a high-resolution government-owned reconnaissance satellite by at least 48 hours until 27 February (UTC).

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Avio: contract signed for 10 Ariane 5 launches

February 25th, 2018 by

Avio and Europropulsion have signed in Paris a supply contract for the coming 4 years for the final Ariane 5 production lot.

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CloudSat exits the ‘A-Train’

February 25th, 2018 by

Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week lowered the orbit of the nearly 12-year-old CloudSat satellite following the loss of one of its reaction wheels, which control its orientation in orbit. While CloudSat’s science mission will continue, it will no longer fly as part of the Afternoon Constellation, or A-Train — six Earth-monitoring satellites that fly in a coordinated orbit.

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JAXA, Sony to demo laser communications system aboard ISS

February 25th, 2018 by

JAXA, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and Sony Corporation made a co-operative research agreement with respect to conducting the on-orbit demonstrations of laser communications system. This research to be executed in the Kibo module on the International Space Station (ISS) aims at establishing a communications system of mass data between spacecraft and that which connects Earth and Space.

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