Satellite News

NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) will be shut down on 18 October after the agency’s Science Mission Directorate last August decided to terminate the mission.

The Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman team was the first to successfully complete the last in a series of verification tests of its Next Generation Processor Router (NGPR) performed during the Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment.

The crash of the Proton-M carrying JCSAT 11 was caused by a damaged control cable, Roskosmos director Anatoly Perminov said.

Arabsat-2B on 26 September, 1330 UTC, experienced a minor glitch that affected the pointing of the satellite. Within approximately 2 hours, the problem was corrected and the satellite recovered its nominal pointing, Arabsat said.

Arabsat-2B on 26 September, 1330 UTC, experienced a minor glitch that affected the pointing of the satellite. Within approximately 2 hours, the problem was corrected and the satellite recovered its nominal pointing, Arabsat said.

Following the autonomous switch off of the Metop-A payload at 0605 UTC on 17 September 2007 recovery activities have been successful and all instruments have been recovered to measurement mode.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter is returning the healthy spacecraft to usual activities after the orbiter entered safe mode on 14 September.

The University of South Australia, responsible for day-to-day operation of Australia’s experimental FedSat, says it has lost contact with the satellite.