Satellite News

A new deployable antenna reflector was qualified at the end of last year by Thales Alenia Space’s plant in Toulouse. Designed for the company’s future communications satellites, especially the Spacebus NEO product line, this new antenna reflector is 2.6 meters in diameter and features a highly standardised design. It will also adapt to changing geostationary telecom mission requirements.

New data regarding IMAGE provides some additional — though not yet complete — information on how the spacecraft began to transmit signals again.

The identity of a satellite re-discovered on 20 January 2018 has been confirmed as NASA’s IMAGE satellite.

The identity of a satellite re-discovered on 20 January 2018 has been confirmed as NASA’s IMAGE satellite.

NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission powered on the GOLD instrument for the first time after launch on 28 January.

Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to develop EGNOS V3, the next generation of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) planned to provide the aviation community with advanced Safety of Life services and new services to Maritime and Land users.

Sierra Nevada’s Space Test Program Mission 5 (STPSat-5) satellite has moved another step closer to launch, successfully completing its Factory Compatibility Test (FCT) with NASA’s Near-Earth Network and the NASA Ames Multi-Mission Operations Center.

The first Arianespace mission in 2018 has been given the “green light” for its 25 January lift-off following a successful launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.