Satellite News

Two more Galileo satellites have reached Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, joining the first pair of navigation satellites and the Ariane 5 rocket due to haul the quartet to orbit this December.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it began field testing the world’s first autonomous driving technology on highways to use a centimeter-level augmentation service (CLAS) broadcast from the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) on 19 September.

Arianespace and ELV/AVIO announced the signature of a contract for Arianespace to order 10 Vega and Vega C launchers from the Italian manufacturer.

Thales Alenia Space and Arianespace have signed a launch contract for two COSMO-SkyMed Second-Generation (CSG) satellites manufactured for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian Ministry of Defense.

Using its Modular Architecture Propulsion System (MAPS) technology, PacSci EMC successfully fired a series of solid rocket motors to both point and significantly change the orbital velocity of a cubesat.

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) signed an agreement to provide Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) a 10% share of the tasking and data acquisition capabilities from NovaSAR-S, a first-in-class small radar satellite due for launch later this year.

JUICE, the Europe Space Agency’s deep space mission to the icy moons of Jupiter led by Airbus, has taken off for the first time with the testing of the RIME instrument (RIME – Radar for Icy Moon Exploration) flying beneath a helicopter.

Rocket Lab announced it will fly payloads for Planet and Spire aboard its upcoming second test flight, ‘Still Testing’, from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.