Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), five months ahead of schedule, following the replan.

Space Systems (formerly Astrium) of Airbus Defence and Space has been selected by the French armament procurement agency DGA to build the user ground segment (UGS) of the MUSIS (MUltinational Space-based Imaging System for surveillance, reconnaissance and observation) observation satellite programme. This new deal includes providing through-life support for the user ground segment for 12 years.

Since October 2012, U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has been analysing, characterising, testing and implementing modified battery charge control rates across the GPS IIR/IIR-M fleet. As of 15 November 2013, the USAF’s 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) completed the modification, which will extend the life of these satellites’ operational capability.

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Aiming for launch at the end of March, the first satellite built specifically for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is now in the last stages of testing before being shipped to French Guiana for lift-off.

A consortium of Belgian aerospace companies including QinetiQ Space has signed a pre-contract agreement with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).