Satellite News

Toshiba Corporation announced that it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) for the Ku-band (12 GHz to 18 GHz) frequency range that achieves an output power of 65.4 W at 14.5 GHz, the highest level of performance yet reported at this frequency band.

The crash of the Proton-M carrying JCSAT 11 was caused by a damaged control cable, Roskosmos director Anatoly Perminov said.

Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with ground system teammate Raytheon, recently completed the System Acceptance Test (SAT) of a Common Command and Telemetry System (CCTS) that will potentially reduce costs between two programmes, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).

JAXA’s Kaguya moon probe successfully released the first of its two “baby satellites.”

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V is to launch the first Wideband Global Satellite Communications spacecraft (WGS, formerly Wideband Gapfiller Satellite) on 11 October within a launch window that extends from 0022 to 0133 UTC.