Satellite News

NASA’s Solar Probe Plus mission — which will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft has before — reached a major milestone last month when it successfully completed its Critical Design Review, or CDR.

The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), which will fly aboard NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 satellite, has been successfully integrated with the spacecraft. CrIS is the fourth instrument to be integrated on the JPSS-1 spacecraft.

Surrey Satellite Technology U.S. LLC (SST-US) announced its collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. and NanoRacks LLC on the development of the FeatherCraft platform, a 100-kilogram-class satellite platform optimised for deployment from the International Space Station (ISS).

a.i. solutions announced it has developed “Meridian,” a flight dynamics software application for defence, civil and commercial satellite ground systems. Built on the FreeFlyer astrodynamics software, Meridian addresses common geosynchronous and low Earth orbit (GEO/LEO) spacecraft flight dynamics requirements and streamlines operations, the company said.

The world-wide Ground Mission Segment providing all Galileo navigation messages has completed a full-scale hardware and software migration to version V2.0, and is now fully operational again.