Satellite News

The General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies team located in San Jose, Calif., completed the installation and testing of two 34-meter beam waveguide antennas as part of NASA’s modernisation plan for its Deep Space Network (DSN).

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) and O3b Networks announced that the companies have jointly completed the first O3b managed services installation for NOAA’s National Weather Service Office (NWSO) at Pago Pago, American Samoa. This remote station is responsible for providing critically important tropical weather alerts and cyclone warning information to a large part of the Pacific.

exactEarth Ltd. announced its financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended 30 April 2016.

Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo-Finmeccanica (33%), was horned by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation with the Stellar Award, for having helped in designing and developing a rapid and innovative solution for reinstatement of the resupply flights to the International Space Station following the mishap of the Antares rocket in October 2014.

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NRO-37; Date: 11 June 2016, 1711 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C; Payload: BeiDou-2 G7; Date: 12 June 2016, 1530 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The navigation satellite was catalogued in a 219 x 34,574 km x 19.3 degrees geostationary transfer orbit.

According to International Launch Services, the Briz M upper stage achieved a precise injection orbit of 3,428 x 64,964 km inclined 29.53 degrees, within 1.1 m/s of target, during the recent Intelsat 31 mission.

Rocket: Proton-M/Briz-M; Payload: Intelsat 31 [Intelsat DLA-2]; Date: 9 June 2016, 0710 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The ascent unit separated from the Proton’s as planned after a 10-minute flight; however, one of the second stage’s engines had shut down prematurely. The Briz-M upper stage was later able to compensate the performance shortfall. At the time of writing, the upper stage had completed four of its five burns.