Satellite News

Managers of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as this week while continuing analysis of what appears to be an intermittent short circuit in the drill.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced first quarter results for the three-month period ending 31 January 2015.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that exactEarth Ltd. has presented its shareholders, COM DEV and Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos S.A., with strategic growth plans that are expected to expand its existing vessel tracking business into the much larger maritime data services market.

The Soyuz launcher for Arianespace’s upcoming mission with two European Galileo navigation satellites is taking shape for a lift-off on 27 March from French Guiana.

SES has chosen Arianespace to launch its new, all-electric telecommunications satellite, SES-15. The launch service contract marks Arianespace’s 41st contract with SES.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 61,000 kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at about 1239 UTC on 6 March..

After studying the recent explosive break-up of a U.S. satellite, ESA space debris experts have concluded this event does not increase the collision risk to nearby ESA missions in any meaningful way.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its SAT Corporation (SAT) subsidiary released SigX Protect, a patent-pending radio frequency (RF) signal protection product that can be configured to automatically cancel interference in real time with no human intervention.