Satellite News

Harris Corporation and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have developed and successfully deployed a new tool that will help track and report anomalies in critical weather satellite information.

e2v has been awarded a EUR10 million contract to deliver Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space science mission.

Kratos Integral Systems International has been awarded a contract by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) to provide Command & Control systems for the AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 satellite programmes.

ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roskosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018.

Northrop Grumman Corporation and teammate ATK have completed the fabrication of the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) wing assemblies for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA recently selected cubesat projects for flight opportunities as part of its CubeSat Launch Initiative in the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

ViviSat, a provider of in-orbit servicing, has opened the ATK Robotic Rendezvous and Proximity (RPO) testing facility to ViviSat clients at the headquarters of ATK’s Space Systems Division in Beltsville, Maryland.

A star sensor developed and manufactured by a German company Jena-Optronik GmbH has been already delivered to Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.