Satellite News

Lockheed Martin delivered the core structure for the first in a series of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s next-generation geostationary weather satellites to the company’s Mississippi Space and Technology Center on NASA’s Stennis Space Center where it will undergo propulsion system integration.

ATK announced it was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Defense Weather Systems Directorate to execute a study of Network-Centric Small Satellites as an element of SMC’s Weather Satellite Follow-On Activities.

Raytheon Company’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) recently added the Japanese Space Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission 1 satellite to its growing list of global environmental missions.

The instrument aboard CNES’ CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) spacecraft stopped producing scientific data on 2 November. Efforts to revive the instrument have so far been unsuccessful, and scientists are reportedly losing optimism in the recovery of the instrument.

Arianespace and Astrium have signed the launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology.

Russia was modernising a booster which U.S. space agency NASA would use for crewed flights, NPO Energomash was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

The European Space Agency has published a list of events with ESA participation in 2013.

Globalstar, Inc. announced that it has obtained a committed issuer managed equity financing facility under which it may from time to time sell up to US$30.0 million of its voting common stock to Terrapin Opportunity, L.P.