Satellite News

Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.

Globalstar announced the promotions of Dave Kagan to the position of CEO and Jay Monroe to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and SpaceX are finalising plans for launch day operations as they prepare for the company’s first flight test with astronauts on board. The teams are working toward a crew test flight to the International Space Station, known as Demo-2, in April 2019.

ISRO said it has successfully completed the hot test of cryogenic engine for the GSLV-F11, which is scheduled to launch GSAT-7A in November this year.

The Horizons 3e telecommunications satellite has been fuelled at the Spaceport in French Guiana, readying it for the 100th launch of a heavy-lift Ariane 5 – which also will carry the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 relay platform on this milestone Arianespace flight planned for 25 September.

The two science orbiters of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission are connected in their launch configuration and the European science orbiter and transport module have been given the go-ahead to be loaded with propellants.

NASA has awarded a contract to General Atomics of San Diego, California, for services required to host the agency’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) instrument on a commercial satellite in low-Earth orbit.