Satellite News

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it is in final preparations for the launch of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft aboard its new Minotaur V rocket. The vehicle is scheduled to be launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia on 7 September 2013 at approximately 0327 UTC. LADEE will mark the first lunar launch from the NASA Wallops facility and Orbital’s first Minotaur rocket launch of a payload that will travel beyond low-Earth orbit.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received an order from Eutelsat to upgrade multiple satID geolocation systems.

O3b Networks and Kymeta Corporation – the company commercialising innovative software-enabled metamaterials-based electronic beamforming antennas for satellite communications – announced an agreement to develop flat panel satellite antennas for the O3b network.