Satellite News

Russian company Voronezh KBKhA has completed the series of first firing trials of a high frequency ion engine, Roskosmos said.

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity’s most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred on 13 January when Juno was about 793 million kilometers from the Sun.

Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it has begun working on a new LEO satellite platform.

Telespazio won at the end of 2015 the EUMETSAT tender for the supply of launch and early orbit phase services (LEOP) for two satellites, with an option for a third, of the new constellation Meteosat Third Generation (MTG), which will provide high resolution observations for meteorology and will support scientific research on climate change.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Corporation to supply its LN-200S fibre-optic Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for the LM 300 satellite bus.

As the GOES-R satellite goes through mechanical testing in preparation for launch in October 2016, the remaining satellites in the series (GOES-S, T, and U) are also making significant progress, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center released a solicitation seeking proposals for the Global Positioning System’s GPS III Space Vehicles (SV) 11+ Phase 1 Production Readiness Feasibility Assessment contract.

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., has entered a public-private partnership with NASA to mature the development of an MPS-130 CubeSat propulsion system using a green propellant, known as AF-M315E.