Satellite News

The third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for launch by Arianespace was installed atop its Ariane 5 today, marking one of the final steps in preparations for lift-off on 9 March on a servicing mission to the International Space Station.

Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said that Iran will construct a new launch base to send bigger satellites into orbit, the state-run Press TV reported.

Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and have determined how to correct it.

The second Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force and launched on 16 January 2002 (UTC), has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service.