Satellite News

Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) recently completed a hardware design review and software safety test, bringing it closer to launching the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the Red Planet.

Ingosstrakh has paid out RUB857 million (US$24.4 million) following the total loss of Ekspress MD1 in July 2013.

Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its fourth quarter and full year 2013 financial results.

ViaSat Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014.

Airbus Defence and Spac has been awarded a EUR60 million contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue definition and feasibility studies in 2014 for the new Ariane 6 European launcher.

China’s first lunar rover, Yutu, has at least partially survived the recent lunar night even though the mechanism designed to protect it from the cold didn’t work as planned. It has been independently confirmed that the spacecraft is at least sending a signal.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a US$5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, California, for the production of the Ion Velocity Meter (IVM) under the U.S. Air Force Space Situational Awareness Environmental Monitoring programme to fly aboard COSMIC-2, the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate-2 (aka Formosat-7).