Satellite News

Managers from Orbital Sciences and NASA have decided to postpone the approach, rendezvous, grapple and berthing operations of Orbital’s Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft with the International Space Station to no earlier than Saturday, 28 September.

The prototype for Lockheed Martin ‘s next generation GPS III satellite reached a major milestone on 30 August when it successfully established remote connectivity and communicated with the GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), being developed by Raytheon, during a series of pre-flight tests.

SSTL has developed a new satellite platform, the SSTL-X50 which according to the company baselines flight-proven heritage with new next-generation avionics to provide a smaller, lighter, flexible spacecraft with enhanced systems capabilities and quality.