Satellite News

Orbital Sciences Corporation confirmed that its Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand at approximately 1815 UTC on 23 October.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that one of its customers has exercised options for additional equipment valued at over C$15 million on a previously announced contract.

RSCC has begun the process to select a contractor for design, development, manufacture, delivery, integration, ground processing, in-orbit tests, commissioning and lifetime orbit support of Ekspress-AMU2.

The Planck satellite, part of the Herschel-Planck joint scientific mission, completed its mission today.

Here’s what happened to NASA’s Juno probe during the U.S. government shutdown.

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it has kicked off final electrical testing of the Ekspress-AM5 satellite.

During the NASA shutdown, the LADEE mission continued to perform its critical manoeuvres and capture into the commissioning orbit around the moon.

In preparation for its final switch-off on 23 October, mission controllers have fired Planck’s thrusters to empty its fuel tanks. The burn is one of the final steps to ensure that Planck ends its mission in a permanently safe configuration.