Satellite News

Raytheon Company was recently selected by DigitalGlobe, Inc. as the next-generation WorldView Legion satellite imaging constellation payload provider.

Jena-Optronik’s RVS3000 rendezvous and docking sensor will support the autonomous approach of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser to the ISS, making it the fourth ISS supply spacecraft to use the sensor technology from Jena.

The Koreasat-5A communications satellite has arrived at the Cape Canaveral space centre in Florida. Built by Thales Alenia Space for South Korean operator KTSAT (a KT Corporation company), Koreasat-5A will be orbited by SpaceX in the weeks to come, using a Falcon 9 launcher.

Lockheed Martin said it completed the first flight build of its new Multi-mission Modular (MM) Solar Array. This new flexible array advances Lockheed Martin’s significant heritage flying flexible arrays on such programmes as the International Space Station and a constellation for the U.S. Air Force.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that Teledyne Brown Engineering’s Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has achieved full operating capability (FOC).

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KARI, to deliver the communications equipment for the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter mission (KPLO), a lunar probe scheduled for launch on December 2020.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems successfully completed a system Critical Design Review for the SBIRS GEO-5 and GEO-6 satellites on 8 September.

GomSpace A/S, a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB, and the Spanish company AISTECH have signed a framework delivery agreement for the supply of up to 100 nanosatellite platforms for a value of up to EUR12.5 million.