Satellite News

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.

Ball Aerospace and the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) team is currently preparing the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation polar orbiting weather satellite for launch on 10 November 2017.

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

Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017.

Eutelsat Communications reported revenues for the first quarter ending 30 September 2017.