Satellite News

NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory recently completed the Thermal-Vacuum (TVAC) phase of environmental testing at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

NASA’s is preparing to operate its Kepler spacecraft after the failure of a reaction wheel, which is now expected to occur “sooner rather than later”.

On 29 March 2012, the science team for NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope learned that the defunct Kosmos 1805 spy satellite would pass too close for comfort on 4 April. An evasive manoeuvre was successfully performed.