Satellite News

NanoRacks said it successfully deployed NovaWurks’ SIMPL satellite via the company’s Kaber Microsatellite Deployer (KABER) from the International Space Station (ISS). This is the second Kaber-class deployment that NanoRacks completed this week.

After more than 15 productive years in orbit, the U.S./German GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission has ended science operations.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, which designed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) optics, spacecraft bus, and sunshield for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has deployed the sunshield subsystem and fully tensioned the five sunshield layers for the first time.

Ball Aerospace and the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) team is currently preparing the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation polar orbiting weather satellite for launch on 10 November 2017.

NanoRacks said it successfully deployed the Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) microsatellite via the company’s Kaber Microsatellite Deployer (Kaber) from the International Space Station. This is the largest satellite that NanoRacks has deployed to date, and the first deployed from the Kaber deployer.

NASA has authorised a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

UrtheCast Corp., its subsidiary Deimos Imaging and e-GEOS (a company owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency) announced a strategic partnership to offer a combination of joint optical and radar sensors with ground stations.

Europe’s Sentinel-5P satellite – the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring the air we breathe – is in excellent health, the European Space Agency said. The 820 kg satellite was lofted into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia last Friday on a Rokot.