Satellite News

Boeing said it would restructure its defence, space and security (BDS) division into smaller units and cut about 50 jobs this year.

Designed to operate for five years, Airbus’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite TerraSAR-X has achieved ten years of flawless operations in orbit providing high-resolution radar images in all weather conditions 24 hours a day.

The last launch of Russia’s light-class Rokot carrier rocket will take place early next year, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center said.

With the Sentinel-2B satellite close to beginning its working life in orbit, this latest Copernicus satellite has linked up to Alphasat by laser, across almost 36,000 km of space, to deliver images of Earth just moments after they were captured.

Nammo announced that it has agreed with Moog Inc. to acquire its In-Space Propulsion businesses in UK and Ireland.

Orbital ATK announced that its “S.S. John Glenn” Cygnus spacecraft successfully completed its seventh cargo logistics mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract.

China will develop and launch a two-meter-caliber space telescope, which will share the same orbit with the country’s future space station, said Yang Liwei, deputy director of China Manned Space Agency.

Ball Aerospace announced it has completed a six-month Phase A study of the scientific and technology requirements for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI).