Satellite News

Reaction Engines has successfully tested its precooler at airflow temperature conditions representing Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, marking a significant milestone in the development of its SABRE engine.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry along as many as 14 small foreign satellites in its next three PSLVs (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles) over the next two months, sources close to ISRO confirmed.

Eutelsat Communications said is currently investigating an incident on one of the two solar arrays on its Eutelsat 5 West B satellite.

NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter’s latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.

Nanoracks announced that it has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-using spent C4M [Cyclone-4M, Tsiklon-4M] rocket upper stages, which would be in-orbit after launch missions from Nova Scotia’s Canso Spaceport, Canada’s first and only commercial spaceport.

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on 21 October when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.

The Enhanced Polar System (EPS) was declared operational and handed over to U.S. Air Force operators following months of on-orbit check out and the successful completion of a Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).

Italian space transportation company D-Orbit announced the launch of Aurora, a customisable, cloud-based mission control software suite specially designed for the next-generation small satellite constellations.