Satellite News

“U.S. diplomatic and military officials remain perplexed and unsatisfied with China’s nonexplanatory responses to international protests regarding the Asian giant’s January anti-satellite (ASAT) ballistic missile test.” (Aerospace Daily and Defense Report)

Airborne Systems announced that its Space and Recovery Systems Engineering team (formerly Irvin Aerospace) has been selected to provide Recovery Systems for Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) Falcon 9/Dragon system.

MSC.Software Corp., a provider of enterprise simulation solutions and services, said that Swales Aerospace successfully utilised MSC Nastran and MSC Adams to eliminate the need for system level deployment testing in the design and development of the NASA satellite constellation THEMIS Probe Bus & Probe Carrier.

NASA has established a requirements baseline for ground systems to be developed in support of the Constellation Program. The systems requirements review was conducted at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 5 May.

NASA will test one of the rocket engines it is developing for its new launch vehicles at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, USA. The agency will build a new test stand at Stennis for the J-2X engine. The engine will power the upper stages of NASA’s Ares I and Ares V rockets.

DataPath, Inc., a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks, announced that it has become an executive member of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA).

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has won its fifth consecutive contract to operate the Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory (IRREL) at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/VSSS).

Hackers may have hijacked satellite TV signals in southern China, but maybe it was an ordinary satellite problem, according to various reports from Shanghai and Hong Kong.