Satellite News

The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, has arrived by a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California/USA.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation said it was developing a robust, radiation-hardened, wireless spacecraft bus under a US$4.1 million, 21-month, first phase contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a EUR30 million contract with Astrium GmbH, Germany for the supply of a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE mission.
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NASA’s climatology satellite CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations), launched in April 2006, has developed a problem with one of its instruments.
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As a result of the OCO launch failure on 24 February, Orbital Sciences Corp. will not receive a US$5.3 million mission success incentive that the company had expected to earn and the company will incur unanticipated costs to investigate the cause of the incident.
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