Satellite News

SRI International, working with specialty foundry provider TowerJazz, has delivered the first complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager engineering units to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for use on the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) optical telescope.

The ATV-4 performed a fully controlled destructive re-entry into the atmosphere on 2 November, following its undocking from the ISS on 28 October, and bringing the five-month mission to its conclusion.

Space Systems/Loral has been selected to develop designs, processes and business terms for carrying small science and technology missions to space on its geostationary (GEO) satellite platform.

Exelis successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate the behaviour of GPS signals in space, which will be used for testing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS ground station known as the operational control system (OCX).

Image sensors designed and manufactured by e2 have captured their first images of the Sun on board NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft, which was designed and built by Lockheed Martin.

Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd. said it has fixed a problem with its Amos 5 satellite that threatened to shorten the spacecraft’s operational life by almost one year.

A key instrument that will fly on the GOES-R spacecraft, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, is cleared for installation on the spacecraft.

Eutelsat Communications and Es’hailSat announced that their jointly owned Eutelsat 25B/Es’hail 1 satellite, launched on 29 August, went into commercial service at 25.5 degrees East.