Satellite News

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed contracts totalling approximately C$3.5 million dollars with Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France.

The checks on the Amazonas 4A satellite are proceeding nominally, enabling Arianespace to announce the launch date for the Astra 5B and Amazonas 4A satellites.

Indian Space Research Organisation plans to carry out an experimental launch of the GSLV Mark III at the end of May end the beginning of une, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan was quoted as saying.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that Soyuz launches from the new Vostochny cosmodrome are to start 2015, followed by the first manned Angara launch in 2018.

Sentinel-1A, the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite designed and built by Thales Alenia Space, has arrived at the Guiana Space Center, the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.

All five instruments that will fly on NOAA’s next-generation Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) JPSS-1 satellite are now in the “environmental testing” phase, bringing it closer to its planned launch in early 2017.

China’s lunar rover Yutu entered its third planned dormancy on 22 February, with the mechanical control issues that might cripple the vehicle still unresolved.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered four phased array antennas to Lockheed Martin and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the inaugural test flight of the Orion spacecraft.