Satellite News

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned manoeuvre of the spacecraft’s remaining mission on 9 August. The manoeuvre will target Cassini toward an 21 August encounter with Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

After 14 years of monitoring Earth’s main energy source, radiation from the sun, NASA’s Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite (AcrimSat) has lost contact with its ground operations team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and its mission has been declared completed.

The latest two satellites to be launched by Arianespace for Europe’s Galileo navigation system are being fuelled at the Spaceport in French Guiana, readying them for this month’s Soyuz mission.

ATK has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) with NASA to verify that the five-segment solid rocket booster is on track for an unmanned, first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in 2017.

Thales Alenia Space, at the helm of a Temporary Consortium of Companies (TCC) which also includes Telespazio, has signed an agreement worth EUR66 million with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), for the continuation of the Second Generation COSMO-SkyMed programme.

NASA said it is continuing to invest in concepts that may one day revolutionise how we live and work in space with the selection of five technology proposals for continued study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.

EchoStar Corporation reported financial results for the second quarter 2014.

Andrey Kalinovsky, the former First Vice President of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company (SCAC), has been appointed acting director general of the Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Center (KhSC).