Satellite News

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. recently successfully completed the delta Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft.

The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2007 to design and build the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series, has met the requirements of a Pre-Environmental Review (PER).

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument being built for the first Joint Polar Satellite System satellite (JPSS-1) is progressing ahead of schedule and on budget.

ATK’s Space Components Division in Goleta, California signed a contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to provide the solar array to power the Amos-6 (Affordable Modular Optimised Satellite).

The spacecraft and science instrument integration for the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) – NASA’s next Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission – has been completed, and final testing is underway.

Lockheed Martin delivered the core structure for the first in a series of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s next-generation geostationary weather satellites to the company’s Mississippi Space and Technology Center on NASA’s Stennis Space Center where it will undergo propulsion system integration.

ATK announced it was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Defense Weather Systems Directorate to execute a study of Network-Centric Small Satellites as an element of SMC’s Weather Satellite Follow-On Activities.

Raytheon Company’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) recently added the Japanese Space Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission 1 satellite to its growing list of global environmental missions.