Satellite News

Faced with the challenge of capturing tumbling satellites to clear key orbits, ESA is considering turning to an ancient terrestrial technology: the harpoon.

Airbus Defence and Space is making final preparations for the launch of SPOT 7, its new high-resolution Earth observation satellite.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) announced the successful launch of KazEOSat-2, a medium resolution Earth observation satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan The spacecraft was launched into a 630-km sun-synchronous orbit on board a Dnepr rocket from Yasny in Russia.

Eutelsat Communications announced it is embarking on a new triple mission satellite programme that will support sustained demand for capacity for data, fixed and mobile broadband services as well as video.

European Space Propulsion (ESP), an Aerojet Rocketdyne company, has delivered the first set of satellite thrusters to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., in support of a joint mission between Taiwan and the United States to observe and monitor the global climate, atmosphere and ionosphere for enhanced weather forecasting.

NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to develop CuSPP, a CubeSat mission to study Solar Particles over the Earth’s Poles. SwRI will also lead mission science operations and data analysis.

On 10 June, the meteorological satellite Fengyun-3C has been put into operation officially, replacing FY-3A in a morning orbit and complementing FY-2B in an afternoon orbit.

The second Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM-2) of India’s Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was successfully performed on 11 June 2014 at 1100 UTC.