Satellite News

Aerojet Rocketdyne recently was awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver XR-5 Hall Effect and MR-510 Arcjet electric propulsion subsystems, as well as monopropellant rocket engines for the modernised A2100 satellite.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract amendment with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further develop and test the Payload Orbital Delivery (POD) system as part of DARPA’s Phoenix programme. This project was originally announced in November 2013.

SSTL said it is now downloading data from its newly installed ground station in Svalbard, which will maximise contact with the company’s polar-orbiting satellites.