Satellite News

ESA’s fifth Galileo navigation satellite, one of two left in the wrong orbit this summer, will make a series of manoeuvres this month as a prelude to its health being confirmed.

Communications with the STEREO Behind spacecraft were interrupted on 1 October 2014 immediately after a planned reset of the spacecraft performed as part of a test of solar conjunction operations. There have been no successful communications since then, though attempts to recover the spacecraft continue. Initial indications are that a series of problems in the guidance and control system led to the anomaly.

Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter ending 30 September 2014.

With the first Copernicus satellite now operational, ESA and the DLR German Aerospace Center have signed an arrangement on managing and accessing Sentinel data.