Satellite News

The final three of eighteen primary mirrors built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have arrived at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, for integration prior to a scheduled launch in 2018.

Exelis is supporting Japan’s forecasting capabilities with the delivery of its first advanced weather satellite payload to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.

Brazil and China will launch a new joint environmental monitoring satellite next year to replace one which failed to enter orbit earlier this month, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo was quoted as saying.

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China hailed its Chang’e-3 lunar probe mission “a complete success” after its first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, and lander took photos of each other on lunar surface.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin more than US$200 million in contract options to complete production of its fifth and sixth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as GPS III.

Space Systems/Loral (SSL), and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited announced the signing of a construction agreement for a high power, multi-mission satellite, AsiaSat 9, to be used for television broadcast, private networks and broadband services across the Asia Pacific. The satellite is expected to be launched in 2016.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with Visiona (a joint venture between Embraer and Telebras) for the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC) programme.