Satellite News

General Dynamics C4 Systems SATCOM Technologies received a contract from Lockheed Martin to design and build the ground structures and integrate the mechanical systems for the U.S. Air Force Space Fence programme.

Russia plans to create a new satellite communication system that will provide global coverage and communication security.

Thirteen lightweight antennas that self-deploy in 200 milliseconds have been delivered to support Canada’s Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) by Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC).

The Space Data Association (SDA), established by satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, announced that the United States Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) has signed an agreement with the SDA to participate in the DoD’s Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing Program, the first such agreement with a non-satellite operator.

NASA has selected four proposals for advanced energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency’s future space missions.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned manoeuvre of the spacecraft’s remaining mission on 9 August. The manoeuvre will target Cassini toward an 21 August encounter with Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

After 14 years of monitoring Earth’s main energy source, radiation from the sun, NASA’s Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite (AcrimSat) has lost contact with its ground operations team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and its mission has been declared completed.

Thales Alenia Space, at the helm of a Temporary Consortium of Companies (TCC) which also includes Telespazio, has signed an agreement worth EUR66 million with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), for the continuation of the Second Generation COSMO-SkyMed programme.