Satellite News

ESA’s comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days’ time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully completed its Earth flyby but for unknown reasons switched to safe mode. Communications have been established with the vehicle, which is in a stable state.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received its largest commercial award ever.

The SENER engineering and technology group has finished installing the deployable sunshield for the GAIA satellite in preparation for the final tests prior to its launch, slated for late November.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne announced that its XR-5 high-power Hall Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) system has initiated orbit raising operations on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle 3 (SV-3) that launched 18 September aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Effective 1 October, Y.K. Bae Corporation has been awarded US$500,000 from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase 2 programme to further develop the company’s Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) technology. This two year research and development phase will result in a scaled-up laboratory demonstration of PLT propulsion with space qualified lasers in a vacuum environment.

COM DEV Europe was selected to provide the Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) Transponder equipment to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for the first six spacecraft in the FORMOSAT-7 global weather forecasting programme.