Satellite News

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) now is scheduled to launch at 2305 UTC on 10 February from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it is currently working on a new high-pressure xenon tank intended for the company’s future satellites’ orbit control subsystems.

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), one of five instruments that will fly on-board NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite, has successfully completed its pre-shipment review.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits on 7 February 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, from equatorial to polar latitudes.