Satellite News

The SENER engineering and technology group has signed new contracts for the Phase C and Phase D of the Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 satellites.

A NASA team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is collaborating with Ohio State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to build and launch a new CubeSat mission that will test next-generation techniques for detecting and discarding radio-frequency interference (RFI).

Japan will collaborate with the U.S. and others to monitor the skies for orbiting space debris, suspicious satellites and other objects, sharing its data with international partners.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced the successful completion of its fourth cargo delivery mission (OA-4) to the International Space Station (ISS), including the initial demonstration flight and three operational missions under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft delivered 3,465 kg of cargo to the ISS, the largest cargo shipment to date by a commercial company.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced the formation of a joint venture with TAQNIA, a firm dedicated to accelerating technology development for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in partnership with KACST to develop a constellation of highly capable small imaging satellites to support the needs of customers around the world.

The first next-generation navigation satellite of the GLONASS-K series, designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, has started providing services in orbit.

Under the Copernicus agreement it signed with the European Commission on 7 November 2014, EUMETSAT will be the operator of the recently launched Sentinel-3A satellite and will deliver its marine mission on behalf of the European Union, in co-operation with ESA.

NASA officially is beginning work on the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).