Satellite News

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. was awarded a contract by the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for a technology transfer and flight hardware upgrade programme which could be valued up to US$17.6 million.

Fengyun-III, China’s third polar orbiting meteorological satellite, was put into operation on 5 May, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).

Lockheed Martin completed the propulsion module for the fourth Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-4) space vehicle and is now proceeding with satellite assembly, integration and test.

EgyptSat-2, produced by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia and launched on 16 April, has completed its initial flight tests in low-Earth orbit.

With the delivery of the system module and the propulsion module, the GOES-R weather satellite will now undergo the important integration and testing phase so that it can be available in late 2015 for a launch in early 2016.

NASA and CNES have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water and to map ocean surface height with unprecedented detail.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 has arrived at its launch site on California’s central coast after travelling from Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Arizona. The spacecraft now will undergo final tests and then be integrated on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket in preparation for a planned launch on 1 July.

The NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite is now the primary operational polar-orbiting spacecraft for NOAA’s operational weather forecasting mission. The National Weather Service (NWS) uses Suomi NPP data in its numerical weather prediction models.