Satellite News

Ground controllers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, have confirmed that NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the moon, as planned, between 0430 an 0522 UTC on 18 April.-

Lockheed Martin has delivered a new solar analysis payload that will help scientists measure and forecast space weather, which can damage satellites, electrical grids and communications systems on Earth.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting a 1925 UTC launch on Friday, 18 April of SpaceX’s third cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

ATK has reached agreement on a US$178 million contract award as part of the Air Force’s Phase 1 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) buy from United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Cargo loading has commenced in French Guiana for the fifth – and final – European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which is being prepared for a 2014 launch from the Spaceport on Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 servicing mission to the International Space Station.

Following the launch of the Amazonas 4A from Kourou on board Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle and its subsequent positioning in the geostationary orbit, an anomaly has been detected in the satellite’s performance related to the power subsystem.

NASA has signed a property agreement with Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for use and occupancy of Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A. It will serve as a platform for SpaceX to support their commercial launch activities.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced that DigitalGlobe and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. will co-operate to offer combined optical and synthetic aperture radar satellite data solutions to their respective defence and intelligence customers around the world.