Satellite News

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Kratos Integral Systems International (Kratos ISI) business unit has been awarded a contract by NewSat Limited to provide the satellite command and control system for the Jabiru-1 satellite.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Integral Systems Europe (Kratos ISE) business group has been awarded a contract by An Phat Technology Trading Joint Stock Company to upgrade the Vinasat-1 Network Operations Center (NOC) in Vietnam to support the Vinasat-2 satellite.

Raytheon has received a US$185 million modification from NASA on its current Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) contract, which is intended to increase the capability and capacity of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) three satellites that support the JPSS mission through 2022.

Arab Satellite Communication Organisation and Telesat Canada have signed a strategic commercial agreement under which Telesat will utilise a lifetime Ku-band payload on the new satellite Hellas-sat-4.

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager started to spin at its normal rate today and collect science data on Earth’s rain and snowfall.

Citing budget pressures, the U.S. Air Force has decided to skip buying the seventh and eighth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites that Lockheed Martin was slated to build.

Iridium Communications Inc. announced that Thales Alenia Space has delivered two complete high-fidelity satellite simulators and a number of low-fidelity simulators to Iridium launch partner SpaceX.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received an order to provide Radarsat-2 information to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) as part of EMSA’s CleanSeaNet programme.