Satellite News

The fifth Lockheed Martin Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for the U.S. Navy is entering its first system test faster than the previous build, now that integration is complete, the company said.

The third and final orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-14 was successfully executed with a 172-second firing from Isro’s Master Control Facility at Hasan in Karnataka.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced that operational control of the Space Test Program Satellite-3 (STPSat-3) has been handed over to the U.S. Air Force as the spacecraft begins its technology demonstration mission.

Lockheed Martin will continue tracking and sharing data on orbiting space assets and debris through a US$3.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Under this contract, Lockheed Martin will continue to develop the Non-Traditional Data Pre-Processor (NDPP) under the Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) contract.

ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia is now in its operational orbit around a gravitationally stable virtual point in space called ‘L2′, 1.5 million km from Earth.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced the global expansion of the Dream Chaser Space System through recently finalised co-operative understandings with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Boeing has completed the first of two 702HP (high power) geomobile satellites, Centenario, for Mexico’s new Mexsat end-to-end satellite communications system. Mexsat will provide enhanced social communications to the people of Mexico, as well as capability for military, civil and humanitarian needs.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$4 million to provide OHB System AG with satellite communication electronics to be integrated into the EDRS-C telecommunication satellite as part of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system.