Satellite News

Boeing said it recently achieved two important milestones on the U.S. Air Force Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) programme, which will provide protected wideband satellite communications among ground and airborne terminals for the command and control of U.S. nuclear forces.

Globalstar, Inc. announced that its fourth launch of six second generation satellites has been confirmed for 5 February 2013 at 1620 UTC.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. celebrated the completion of a US$75 million satellite manufacturing centre that more than doubles current spacecraft production capability.

The sixth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), built for NASA by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC), marked 20 years of successful on-orbit performance 13 January surpassing its design life by a decade.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that the company is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the launch and successful operation of the company-built Solar and Radiation Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite.

Arianespace’s first Ariane 5 for launch in 2013 is now ready to receive its two satellite passengers after this heavy-lift launcher was moved to the Spaceport’s Final Assembly Building in French Guiana.

NASA has joined the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2012.