Satellite News

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it delivered the Venus Space Camera to the French Space Agency, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). This delivery follows the completion a successful and extensive process of examination of the camera’s ability to withstand harsh space conditions and its performance capabilities.

Orbital ATK, Inc. today marks its first full day of operations following the completion yesterday of the merger between Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Aerospace and Defense Groups of Alliant Techsystems Inc.

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.

Another two Galileo satellites have touched down in French Guiana ready to take their place in Europe’s satellite navigation constellation.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided the schedule for the Venus Climate Orbiter “Akatsuki” to be injected into the Venus orbit in the winter of 2015, as well as its observation plan.