Satellite News

COROT, the satellite to probe into the interiors of stars and to look for extra-solar planets, has completed its in-orbit verification and started science observations on 3 February.

The second demonstration flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 was pushed back to 9 March because of range constraints.

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By focusing on large missions such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s astrophysics program is squeezing out smaller missions, the U.S. National Research Council said Feb. 7. The NASA-sponsored, one-year study to assess the programs in the agency’s astrophysics division found that while the…

South Africa-based ComputaMaps has released BrightEarth, a natural-color image mosaic covering 95 percent of the Earth’s land surface…

The launch of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)’s Falcon 1 rocket has been delayed until no earlier than March 9, CEO Elon Musk said on the company’s Web site. The Kwajalein Army Range informed SpaceX…

Raytheon Co. has delivered the second of two advanced infrared sensor payloads to Northrop Grumman Space Technology for the missile-warning Space Tracking &amp…

Raytheon Company said it successfully demonstrated that a traditional, transportable satellite communications terminal could be field configured to communicate without acquiring a satellite connection using Troposcatter.