Satellite News

Globalstar, Inc. announced that the launch of six Globalstar satellites has been rescheduled by launch services provider Arianespace.

Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a contract by SKY Perfect JSAT to upgrade its ground systems with the latest version of Integral Systems’ EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) satellite command and control software.

Emergent Space Technologies, Inc., a provider of engineering services and solutions to civil, military, and commercial space programmes, was awarded a contract by the NASA Ames Research Center to provide cluster flight guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) algorithms and software for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) System F6 Program.

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded US$2.4 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and integrate an information architecture for wireless small module satellites. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company .

ESA’s pioneering Artemis satellite has marked a decade in space. The Advanced Relay and Technology Mission was to prove new technologies such as laser links and ion thrusters in space.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C; Payload: Tian Lian 1B (Tianlian 1B, TL-1B, CTDRS-1B); Date: 11 July 2011, 1541 UTC; Launch Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite is a tracking and data relay satellite similar to the United States’ TDRS spacecraft.
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Today’s orbiting of six Globalstar second-generation satellites was postponed 24 hours following the countdown’s interruption prior to lift-off of the Soyuz launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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ESA has awarded a contract worth almost EUR150 million to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth’s atmosphere as part of Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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