Satellite News

China Great Wall Industry Corporation has signed a contract with Sri Lanka’s SupremeSAT for the construction and the launch of a telecommunication satellite.

An ILS Proton M launch vehicle will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the SES-6 satellite on board on 3 June, 0918 UTC.

NASA has transferred operational control of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

National Technical Systems, Inc., a provider of testing and engineering services, announced it completed a series of qualification tests on NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), a satellite that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the moon’s surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.

CGI Group Inc. said it supported Estonia’s first satellite launch, which took place on 7 May 2013, by building the satellite’s ground station control software. The ESTCube-1 satellite was successfully launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana.

A Northrop Grumman Corporation-led team recently completed the third gate review of its first Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) bus assembly, integration and test, marking completion of functional testing.

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NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking Phase II proposals for continuation of promising studies selected during the first phase of the programme.