Satellite News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced the launch schedule for Global Changing Observation Mission – Climate “SHIKISAI” (GCOM-C) and Super Low Altitude Test Satellite “TSUBAME” (SLATS) by H-IIA launch vehicle No. 37.

Arianespace and Inmarsat announced the signature of the launch contract for Inmarsat’s Global Xpress-5 (GX-5) very high throughput communications satellite.

NanoRacks said it successfully deployed NovaWurks’ SIMPL satellite via the company’s Kaber Microsatellite Deployer (KABER) from the International Space Station (ISS). This is the second Kaber-class deployment that NanoRacks completed this week.

After more than 15 productive years in orbit, the U.S./German GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission has ended science operations.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, which designed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) optics, spacecraft bus, and sunshield for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has deployed the sunshield subsystem and fully tensioned the five sunshield layers for the first time.

SES S.A. announced financial results for the nine months ending 30 September 2017.