Satellite News

Inmarsat plc reported consolidated preliminary financial results for the year ending 31 December 2012.

Since returning to science data collection on 27 January 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been performing well and continues to make science observations.

STRaND-1, the nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has been declared operational in orbit by the mission team from the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL).

Millennium Space Systems announced award of a contract from the United States Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Center’s Defense Weather Systems Directorate for research on Systems and Spacecraft for space-based weather sensing.

SES S.A. announced that it has signed, through its service company SES TechCom, a contract with BT to provide satellite communications services for the Galileo Data Dissemination Network (GDDN) to support the Galileo Operator Spaceopal.

The number of satellite transponders required by Indian TV broadcasters and DTH operators is expected to double or triple over the next five years, according to a new report from CASBAA, the apex Asian association of the cable and satellite television industry.

An important milestone has been reached for ESA’s Sentinel-3 mission. The satellite platform has been delivered to the prime contractor in France where the instruments will be installed and tested along with the numerous components that make up this sophisticated new mission to monitor Earth.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary “safe mode” to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by next week.