Satellite News

Exelis said it has successfully completed several software upgrades for the new Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System, or GPS OCX. Integration and testing were recently conducted on iteration 1.5 of the OCX navigation, encryption and Mission Upload Generator, or MUG, software.

SES and Eutelsat Communications announced that the two companies have concluded a series of agreements including a comprehensive settlement of legal proceedings concerning the right to operate at the 28.5 degrees East orbital position and containing long-term commercial as well as frequency coordination elements.

Northrop Grumman Corporation reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2013.

ATK reported operating results for the third quarter of its Fiscal Year 2014, which ended on 29 December 2013.

The Federal Compression and Multiplexing Center (FCMC) has been inaugurated at RSCC’s ‘Shabolovka’ Technical Center in Moscow on 27 January.

The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) recently turned on power to the bus and network communications equipment payload of the programme’s second satellite designated GPS III Space Vehicle 2 (SV-02).

Following last week’s wake-up of the Rosetta comet-chaser, ESA’s flight controllers have conducted the first in a series of health checks aimed at assessing how well it came through 31 months of hibernation.

DubaiSat-2 has successfully passed the tests conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in collaboration with the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), on the satellite’s Propulsion System, in addition to the other examinations ordered to ensure its safety and readiness.