Satellite News

NASA has provided Boeing concurrence to remove and replace the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite’s (TDRS-M) Omni S-band forward antenna.

General Dynamics Mission Systems received a contract from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to ‘fly’ the current Landsat 8 mission from the existing Landsat mission operations centre at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Seabrook, Maryland.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has received an Authorisation to Proceed on a multi-million dollar contract from Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC).

Intelsat S.A. announced financial results for the three months ending 30 June 2017.

Eutelsat Communications and Digiturk beIN MEDIA GROUP have concluded a multi-year multi-transponder agreement on the Eutelsat 7A satellite, extending a collaboration that began in 2000 with the launch of Turkey’s first pay-TV platform.

Astrobotic and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced that Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander will be onboard a ULA launch vehicle in 2019.

Aerojet Rocketdyn said it successfully tested its third RS-25 engine flight controller at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The flight controller tested is slated to fly on the inaugural mission of the SLS which will propel the Orion capsule around the Moon and return it back to Earth.

InterOrbital Systems (IOS) said it is nearing the completion of its N1 GTV launch vehicle which incorporates the company’s new high-efficiency CPM 2.0 filament-wound tank assembly, its new rocket engine gimballing system, its new CPM controller, and its new in-house developed guidance system.