Satellite News

Lifting off from the Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 May (UTC), an Ariane 5 ECA successfully orbited the Astra 3B commercial telecommunications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES Astra, along with the COMSATBw-2 secure military relay spacecraft for Astrium GmbH on behalf of the German Bundeswehr (armed forces).
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The launch of the GPS IIF-1 satellite aboard a Delta IV has been delayed several times over the weekend and is now scheduled for early Tuesday (UTC).
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Lockheed Martin has delivered the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programme to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be prepared for a 30 July lift-off aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle.
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NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows signs of severe ice damage to the lander’s solar panels.
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Less than a month after its launch, satellite observers have managed to track the U.S. Air Force’2 X-37b Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-1).
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