Satellite News

NASA’s partnership in a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Jupiter and its moons has cleared a key milestone, moving from preliminary instrument design to implementation phase.

On 10 April 2017, Naoki Okumura, President of JAXA, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, signed an Implementing Arrangement on Martian Moons Exploration (MMX).

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has entered a hibernation phase on 7 April that will last until early September.

NASA said it is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the potential to transform future human and robotic exploration missions, introduce new exploration capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems.

Ukraine’s State Space Agency Chairman Yuriy Radchenko said that Ukraine is expected to carry out launch of its Lybid 1 telecommunications satellite in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Russia’s first ground station of the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space (ASPOS OKP) aimed at monitoring orbital debris was opened in Brazil, a spokesman of the Roskosmos state corporation was quoted as saying.

The 7th European Conference on Space Debris, to be held 18-21 April at ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will be opened by ESA Director General January Woerner and NASA’s former orbital debris chief scientist Donald Kessler.

SES announced the addition of a powerful Digital Transparent Processor (DTP) onboard the SES-17 satellite.