Satellite News

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., has introduced quantumGND, the first complete C2 to RF ground systems package specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of the small sat community.

Globalstar has rejected claims that its communication network is hackable. The company said recent “news stories about Globalstar are based on analysis by Synack, a startup in the business of identifying possible security flaws for which they then propose remedial measures that they insist we implement.”

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has reportedly cancelled a satellite order with Boeing because of ongoing uncertainty of the project’s financing. Funding was partially to be provided by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is currently shuttered after its charter expired on 30 June.

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., has completed its Critical Design Review, confirming the integrity of the design and its ability to meet mission requirements. The instrument began fabrication in June after an earlier set of reviews.

NASA has selected five proposals submitted to its Explorers Program to conduct focused scientific investigations and develop instruments that fill the scientific gaps between the agency’s larger missions.

Roskosmos plans to allocate US$7 million to develop a segment of the GLONASS satellite-based navigation system to improve the system’s accuracy in Russia and in the Arctic, according to documentation posted on the website of state purchases.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command declared Initial Operational Capability for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system on 28 July.

Manufacturing of navigational satellites of the GLONASS-M family in the Krasnoyarsk territory has been rounded up and they will be replaced by the satellites of next-generation families – GLONASS-K and GLONASS-K2, a spokesman for manufacturer ISS Reshetnev said.