Satellite News

A U.S. Air Force C-5 transport aircraft carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory landed at Kitakyushu Airport, Japan, on 23 November.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity resumed full science operations on 23 November.

Alphasat has reached its operational in-orbit position and has successfully completed all in-orbit tests.

NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been authorised to proceed with development of a Payload Orbital Delivery system (POD) for the DARPA Phoenix mission. The expected contract value for full development of the flight system is US$6 million.

Science observations by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity have been suspended for a few days while engineers run tests to check possible causes of a voltage change detected on 17 November.

State satellite telecommunications company ARSAT and Telespazio, a Finmeccanica (67%) and Thales (33%) joint venture, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 18 November. The signing took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As part of their long-standing relationship, BlackBridge has provided the European Space Agency (ESA) with a substantial time series of RapidEye imagery to support the Sentinel-2-preparatory project.