Satellite News

Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it is currently developing the onboard scientific instruments subsystem of the space-based observatory Millimetron and performing its components testing.

India’s Mars mission has completed six months in space and all scientific instruments are in good working condition.

Orbital ATK, Inc. has been awarded a contract by NASA to design, produce and integrate up to three Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) spacecraft, to be operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide critical weather forecasting data and to advance environmental and oceanographic science.

After avoiding use of the rover’s flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA’s 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle’s flash memory banks and resumed storing some data overnight for transmitting later.

Lockheed Martin said it is working to resolve a technical error that affected some global positioning system (GPS) satellites. The error involved the satellites’ ground control system and did not degrade the accuracy of GPS signals.

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed qualification testing of the W28C0108 1Mbit electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) semiconductor device for radiation-hardened space applications.

For the past eight days, Rosetta has been sending signals to Philae and listening for a response, but the lander has not yet reported back.

Airbus Defence and Space in the UK is now producing its first space qualified aluminium 3D printed components after a two year research and development programme under the National Space Technology Programme, through Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) and the UK Space Agency.