Satellite News

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received a contract for C$15.8 million from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the preliminary design of an advanced technology solution for NASA’s New Frontiers Program – OSIRIS-REx, the next planetary science mission to another celestial body in our solar system.

The European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EADS) reported financial results for the full year 2012.

Polish satellite access service provider TS2 Satellite Technologies has expanded its Internet access in Afghanistan with Avanti’s Hylas 2 satellite.

The second International Space Station Commercial Resupply Services flight by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is set for lift-off at 1510 UTC on 1 March from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the first of two protected communications payloads for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System (EPS) that will provide continuous coverage in the north polar region for secure, jam-resistant, strategic and tactical military communications.

ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. For the last two years, ESA has been working with international partners on the mission concept, dubbed AIDA. Last week, research centres each side of the Atlantic agreed the spacecraft would target asteroid Didymos.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced 31 January it has awarded contracts to ITT Exelis and Harris Corp. as a result of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) released in July 2012 for the “Weather Satellite Follow-on Activities Risk Reduction Technology Project.”

NewSat Limited announced the successful placement of the equity and mezzanine funding for the Jabiru-1 satellite, Australia’s first commercial Ka-band satellite.