Satellite News

Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2014.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received a follow-on contract for C$6.6 million from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The total contract value to-date is C$25 million.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a hot-fire test on its flight-representative 1 Newton (1N) thruster at the company’s specially designated green propellant facility in Redmond, Washington.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has commenced the on-orbit checkout phase for six Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites, establishing communication with each satellite as planned.

The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is ready to be integrated with the spacecraft.

SES S.A. and Airbus Defence and Space announced that SES has selected Airbus Defence and Space to build a new hybrid communications satellite, SES-12, to serve the fast growing DTH, Data, Mobility and Government markets in Asia.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace announced that they have signed a launch contract for the second radar satellite in the Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1B, part of Copernicus, a joint European Union and European Space Agency (ESA) environmental monitoring programme.

10 July 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1, the world’s first active communications satellite. The articles that can be expected over the next few days will likely focus on technical aspects. But the implications were by no means of just a technical nature. The following is based on material from Wikipedia, the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, company press releases, and of course the Sat-ND archive. It is by no means the complete story (that would easily fill a book) but may be interesting anyway.Other Posts:Intelsat capacity for BBC digital switch overProgress M-58 completes docking with ISSGlobalstar CEO Dalton to retireIntegral Systems results FY 2006Alcatel SA results Q3 2006Chandrayaan-1 officially declared lostGeoEye orders new imaging satellite from Lockheed MartinIntelsat, Ltd. results Q3 2007