Satellite News

The Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) for the PSLV-C18/Megha-Tropiques mission, which met on 9 October 2011 at Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) – SHAR, Sriharikota has cleared the launch of PSLV-C18 at 0530 UTC on 12 October 2011.

The Northrop Grumman Corporation -led engineering team building the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) spacecraft continues to take delivery of key hardware, making significant progress on satellite fabrication several months ahead of schedule.

Sofradir, a developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors, announced that it has been awarded a multi-million euro contract to manufacture Infrared (IR) detectors for the engineering and flight model phases for the MUSIS/CSO next generation Earth observation military satellites. These satellites will replace the current Helios 2 observational system.

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