Satellite News

Aerojet Rocketdyne and Firefly Aerospace, Inc. announced a co-operative agreement that combines the capabilities of both companies to provide flexible, sustainable and highly competitive space access solutions, the companies said.

Maritime Launch Services said a Cyclone 4 [Tsiklon 4] fully-integrated upper stage, destined for the Cyclone 4M rocket to be launched from Nova Scotia, Canada, recently underwent the 7000 series qualification profile. This was followed by a second full duration burn profile on 30 August 2019.

Rocket Lab unveiled plans to support extended range missions to medium, geostationary, and lunar orbits with the company’s Photon satellite platform.

At Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully validated its ability to perform key deployments for the first time since its post environmental testing of the Spacecraft Element (SCE) and integration of the SCE and Optical Telescope Element/Integrated Science Instrument Module (OTIS).

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), developed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin with ground systems provider General Dynamics Mission Systems, was deemed operationally effective, operationally suitable, and cyber survivable, following successful completion of its Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).