Satellite News

Rocket: Atlas V 401; Payload: TDRS-L; Date: 24 January 2013, 0233 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Ground controllers report the satellite is in good health after the successful launch into geostationary transfer orbit.

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), five months ahead of schedule, following the replan.

NASA’s Opportunity team celebrated the Mars Exploration Rover’s 10th anniversary on Mars.

Spacebel informed me that the company “signed the FINAL Contract with VAST for the supply of VNREDSat-1b (and not a pre-contract agreement as mentioned in your article). SPACEBEL is prime of the Belgian consortium.”