Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation has submitted a proposal to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) contract.

Japan’s first lunar orbiter, Selene, will lift off in August aboard an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center. No exact launch date has yet been set.

SpaceX said it had completed the primary structure for the Falcon 9 first stage tank.

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board.