Satellite News

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has lost another gyroscope, but no significant impact on science operations is expected.

Attitude control of NASA’s Swift satellite has been restored after a problem that occurred on 10 August.

NASA’s Swift gamma ray observatory has been put in safe mode after problems occurred with the spacecraft’s attitude control on 10 August.

Xinhua news agency reported that since October 2006, at least three of the country’s satellites had temporary malfunctions.

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has given up attempts to contact an experimental military satellite launched last December, Reuters reported citing unnamed defence officials. In addition, the NRO Director has recommended scrapping two multibillion-dollar spy satellite programmes.
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Telesat Canada said it has been unable to activate the Ka-band payload aboard Anik F3.

Since the Metop-A anomaly observed on 4 July 2007 when the AHRPT transmitter autonomously switched off, investigations with Astrium and ESA/ESTEC remained focussed on the status of the failed AHRPT sub-system, EUMETSAT said.
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The Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) service aboard the polar orbiting MetOp-A weather satellite stopped on 4 July and could not be restarted yet, operator EUMETSAT said today.
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