Satellite News

COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) contract to deliver Ku-band and Ka-band multiplexers, switches and microwave components.

NASA has awarded a US$17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a new addition to the International Space Station.

After six months of cruising quietly through the outer solar system, NASA’s Pluto-bound spacecraft came out of hibernation last weekend for three weeks of activity that include system checks, a new flight software upload and science data downloads.

In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refuelling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. During five days of operations, controllers from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will use the space station’s remotely operated Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Dextre, robot to simulate robotic refuelling in space.

NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch on 11 February from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission, LDCM will add to the longest continuous data record of Earth’s surface as viewed from space.

BAE Systems and industry partners have designed, manufactured and tested hardware and software for a space-qualified GPS receiver.

Thales Alenia Space announced that the Yamal-402 communications satellite has successfully passed the In Orbit Acceptance Review.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced the signing of a US$706 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency to build, launch and provide initial operations for the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM).