Satellite News

The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was transitioned to NOAA operational organisation control recently. The transition marks the next step of the mission that supports NASA’s Earth science research and NOAA’s weather forecasting missions.

COM DEV International Ltd. has won a contract to begin work on the development of an advanced satellite payload that will be used in the next generation of the global search and rescue system known as Cospas-Sarsat.

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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received a contract for C$15.8 million from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the preliminary design of an advanced technology solution for NASA’s New Frontiers Program – OSIRIS-REx, the next planetary science mission to another celestial body in our solar system.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin two fixed-price contracts totalling US$120 million to procure long lead parts for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth next generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as GPS III.

The Hispasat Group’s Amazonas 3 satellite has entered its in-orbit test phase, prior to becoming operative. It was successfully launched on 7 February onboard the Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launcher from the European space base in Kourou, French Guiana.