Satellite News

One of the sensors that will fly aboard NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S was recently given a clean bill of health from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The sensor, known as EHIS, was successfully tested using the hospital’s proton accelerator and deemed to be in good working order.

Work on the new facility intended for the production of antennas and feeder devices for satellites is well under way at ISS-Reshetnev Company’s site.

Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.

Planetary Resources, Inc. announced that its Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) spacecraft deployed successfully from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Kibo airlock and has begun its 90-day mission.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company said it is currently setting up production of a new type of antennas intended for application in space-based systems.

A European mission is being planned to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve. ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) will investigate the atmospheres of several hundred planets orbiting distant stars. It is one of three candidate missions selected last month by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium-class science mission, due for launch in 2026 aboard an Ariane 6-2.

NASA’s New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on 14 July, about 12,400 km above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company said it is working on new automated control systems to be implemented during satellites’ preparation to launch.