Satellite News

Thales Alenia Space in Spain partners with OHB System AG in the Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission, in the frame of the expansion of the Copernicus Program led by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Commission.

Harris Corporation has delivered an environmental monitoring sensor for the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite-2 (GOSAT-2), which will significantly enhance Japan’s ability to monitor greenhouse gases from space.

NASA engineers attempted to contact the Opportunity rover today but did not hear back from the nearly 15-year old rover.

MDA announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with OHB System AG (OHB) to provide fine pointing for solar arrays and tracking antennas for the Heinrich Hertz communications satellite.

NASA has approved an update to Juno’s science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around Jupiter and will enable Juno to achieve its primary science objectives.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is back “awake” and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history – a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has won a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Phase A study of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), the third “large-class” mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-25 Programme.

NASA is seeking proposals for hosting services for the agency’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, which will measure ozone and other key pollutants over North America