Satellite News

The December launch failure of a Chang Zheng rocket with the CBERS-3 satellite onboard was caused by a clogged fuel line, China Great Wall Industry Corp. said.

China’s Yutu moon rover suffered a control circuit malfunction in its driving unit, which troubled its dormancy in extremely low temperature, a scientist said according to Xinhua.

The first spacecraft for Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation programme – Sentinel-1A – is now undergoing pre-launch checkout, readying it for lift-off on Arianespace’s next Soyuz flight from French Guiana on 3 April.

An advanced antenna reflector designed and built by Harris Corporation (HRS) has been successfully deployed in space onboard the Sirius FM-6 satellite which was designed and built by Space Systems/Loral (SSL) for SiriusXM.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission last month successfully completed the initial post-launch power-on and checkout of the spacecraft’s Electra Ultra High Frequency Transceiver. This wraps up the initial checkouts of all payloads on the MAVEN spacecraft, with everything performing as expected.