Satellite News

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI), designed and built by Ball Aerospace for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is entering its fourth year of service.

NASA said it is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the potential to transform future human and robotic exploration missions, introduce new exploration capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems.

NSR said its Satellite Operator Financial Analysis, 7th Edition, finds in an industry fraught with falling prices and indebted behemoths, satellite operators are playing a more aggressive game to find growth.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA have announced the schedule of the launch of Michibiki No. 2, the latest spacecraft in the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, aboard H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 34.

ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe’s International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane.

Ukraine’s State Space Agency Chairman Yuriy Radchenko said that Ukraine is expected to carry out launch of its Lybid 1 telecommunications satellite in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Russia’s first ground station of the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space (ASPOS OKP) aimed at monitoring orbital debris was opened in Brazil, a spokesman of the Roskosmos state corporation was quoted as saying.

The 7th European Conference on Space Debris, to be held 18-21 April at ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will be opened by ESA Director General January Woerner and NASA’s former orbital debris chief scientist Donald Kessler.