Satellite News

GeoEye announced the delivery of the camera for its next-generation commercial imaging satellite to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Gilbert, Arizona for integration into the satellite.

ESA’s Columbus laboratory, scheduled for launch to the ISS on shuttle mission STS-122 in October/November 2007, last month successfully passed its Flight Operations Readiness Review.

The Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota on 10 January 2007 was successfully recovered on 22 January after being manoeuvred to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and descend over Bay of Bengal about 140 km East of Sriharikota.

In 2005, the first flight of Russia’s new Angara rocket was announced to take place by the end of 2007. Now it’s expected no earlier than 2010, according to the commander of the Russian Space Forces.

Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, commander of the Russian Space Forces, said that Russia will stop launching spacecraft from the Svobodny cosmodrome in the country’s Far East.

The anomaly that prevented ISRO from testing its cryogenic stage has turned out to be none. Instead, two misconfigured sensors provided erroneous readings, prompting the cancellation of the full-duration test.

SpaceX said that during final check-outs prior to a static firing of its Falcon 1 rocket, an anomaly with the thrust vector control (TVC) pitch actuator on the second stage was discovered.