Satellite News

In readiness for launch on 8 April, ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite has now joined the rest of the Dnepr rocket in the launch silo at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit skipped a planned communication session on 30 March and, as anticipated from recent power-supply projections, has probably entered a low-power hibernation mode.

ESA said it is asking industry to submit proposals for a Lunar Lander mission to the moon’s south polar region.

Fujitsu announced that the Sentinel Asia STEP-2 system, which it built under the auspices of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), became fully operational on 31 March 2010.

The world’s first weather satellite, TIROS-1 (Television and Infrared Observation Satellite), was launched on 1 April 1960.

A lot of people like to get satellite television just for the extra sports channels. Yet, sometimes it can be hard to tell which satellite television providers have the extra sports channels as part of their package or if it one of those “extras” that you have to pay more for.