Satellite News

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that its first experimental satellite, NTS, has successfully completed one year in orbit, validating COM DEV’s high-performance detection capability for its advanced space-based AIS (Automatic Identification System) technology.

A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team announced that the five-satellite Milstar constellation has accumulated 50 years of combined on-orbit operations and continues to provide communications to U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe.
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NASA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Landsat 5 satellite, which was launched on 1 March 1984, and is still in operation.
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The Swedish atmospheric research and astronomy satellite Odin last week celebrated eight years in orbit and the value of its observations keeps increasing, the Swedish Space Corporation said.
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The first U.S. Air Force Milstar communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team, has achieved 15 years of on-orbit operations. Five years beyond its original design life, the satellite is 100 percent mission capable.
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The in-orbit validation programme for Galileo, Europe’s global satellite navigation system, is celebrating three years since the first signal was broadcast by the GIOVE-A satellite.
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The U.S. Air Force’s Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B10 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin , has achieved 15 years of on orbit operations, far exceeding its original 10 year design life.