Satellite News

Millennium Space Systems announced that it has shipped out their first set of RWA-1000 reaction wheels to commercial customer SSL in Palo Alto, CA.

Malaysian satellite communications services company, TS Global Network Sdn Bhd (TSGN) and Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that Hughes is providing its JUPITER System for a major technology upgrade of TSGN’s existing C-band satellite network.

Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 December 2014.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: ABS 3A, Euetlsat 115 West B; Date: 2 March 2015, 0350 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Thirty minutes into flight, the ABS 3A satellite deployed into a supersynchronous transfer orbit followed by Eutelsat 115 West B approximately five minutes later.

The U.S. Air Force confirmed that the 20-year-old Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13 (DMSP-F13) suffered a “catastrophic event” on 3 February 2015.

Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated the propulsion core and payload module for the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite nearly five months ahead of schedule.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is approaching orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a dwarf planet when it enters orbit around Ceres on Friday, 6 March.