Satellite News

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) being built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth in the Landsat satellite series, has successfully passed the Instrument Critical Design Review (ICDR).

Goodrich Corporation has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for the first operational satellite system in support of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS).

Ministers from 19 ESA member states have agreed to commit EUR9.65 billion (US$12.8 billion) to Europe’s space programme.

SES S.A.announced a multi-year agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Corporation.

“It is a usual phenomena [sic] because it is summer on the moon. There is nothing to worry. … By the first week of December, the atmosphere will become benign on the moon.” — An ISRO spokesman commenting the higher-than-expected temperature aboard the Chandrayaan 1 moon probe

The newest (and final) DSP early warning satellite has apparently failed after less than a year in geosynchronous orbit, satellite observers and a U.S. defence official said.

India’s Chandrayaan 1 moon probe has run into trouble as the temperature inside the spacecraft has unexpectedly surged, BBC News reports.

The flight of Russia’s next Progress spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, to the International Space Station (ISS) will take four days, a Russian space official was quoted as saying.