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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.

Orbital Science’s Cygnus cargo ship experienced navigation system trouble, and its arrival at the International Space Station was delayed at least two days.

After almost 9 years in space, NASA’s Deep Impact mission has ended. The project team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has reluctantly pronounced the mission at an end after being unable to communicate with the spacecraft for over a month.

Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed test firings of the CST-100 spacecraft’s steering jets at White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The tests assessed how the thrusters — which fire with 6,675 N (1,500 lbf) of thrust– will speed up, slow down and move the spacecraft while carrying NASA astronauts in Earth’s orbit.