Satellite News

Ground controllers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, have confirmed that NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the moon, as planned, between 0430 an 0522 UTC on 18 April.-

Lockheed Martin has delivered a new solar analysis payload that will help scientists measure and forecast space weather, which can damage satellites, electrical grids and communications systems on Earth.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced that DigitalGlobe and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. will co-operate to offer combined optical and synthetic aperture radar satellite data solutions to their respective defence and intelligence customers around the world.

Airbus Defence and Space said it has successfully completed the final integration and testing of MEASAT-3b. The satellite left the Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France, and has been transported by air to Kourou, French Guiana.

The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced that DubaiSat-2′s in orbit commissioning is complete and the satellite is now fully operational.

NASA’s Ames Research Center will launch several small satellites into space aboard NASA’s next commercial cargo resupply flight of the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. These experiments include a next-generation smartphone satellite, 100 stamp-sized nanosatellites and life science experiments.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx programme has successfully completed a comprehensive technical review of the mission and has been given approval to begin building the spacecraft, flight instruments and ground system.

India’s Mars Orbiter Spacecraft has crossed the half-way mark of its journey to the Red Planet along the designated helio-centric trajectory.