Satellite News

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 will launch the GPS IIF-11 mission for the U.S. Air Force Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 30 October 2015.

NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has issued a call to U.S. industry for ideas on how the agency could obtain a core advanced solar electric propulsion-based spacecraft to support the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM).

China is planning to launch a global carbon dioxide observatory satellite into space in 2016. Recently, development of all satellite payloads was finished.

Saft has been awarded a multi-million dollar Long Term Agreement (LTA) with Lockheed Martin as the preferred supplier of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for the company’s telecommunications satellites.

For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V.

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid back to Earth.

The Boeing Company reported third-quarter financial results.

Arianespace recently signed extensions to its ground service contracts covering the operation of the three launch complexes at the Guiana Space Center, for the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launchers. These agreements will extend by three years, through the end of 2019, the contracts that first took effect on 1 January 2012.