Satellite News

The Swedish Space Corporation is the first space company in the world to receive a long-term Radio Frequency S-band license for Galileo.

The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a Phase II US$400,000 grant to the Bae Institute. The Institute will demonstrate the Photon Thruster/Tether (Push/Pull) control and system stability in a vacuum chamber with off-the-shelf components.

Integral Systems, Inc., announced the award by the U.S Air Force of two cost plus award fee modifications totalling US$7.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) programme.

Raytheon Company has been awarded a US$950,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate improvements to space situational awareness.

The STS-115 crew successfully completed the full deployment of the International Space Station’s new set of solar arrays at 1244 UTC.

MetOp-A, the first in a new European series of three meteorological operational satellites designed to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere from polar orbit, is now to be launched on Saturday, 7 October from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Rocket: Soyuz U; Payload: Kosmos 2423; Date: 14 September, 1339 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The classified military satellite was released into its planned orbit eight minutes after lift-off.