Satellite News

Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle (SV) 04 received United States Space Force’s Operational Acceptance approval on 1 December. It is the fourth GPS III satellite delivered into the operational constellation in the past 12 months and the second in the past three months.

ISS-Reshetnev Company has completed assembly of the Ekspress-AMU3 telecommunications satellite.

A small-satellite mission to understand the lunar water cycle — detecting and mapping water on the lunar surface in order to investigate how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology — has received NASA approval to proceed with the next phase of its development.

RUAG Space has developed a new powerful computer for satellites called “Lynx”.

Teledyne e2v, part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, will supply infrared detectors for the UK-led climate change TRUTHS mission. The Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio Studies (TRUTHS) mission aims to establish an SI-traceable space-based climate and calibration observing system to improve confidence in climate-change forecasts, often referred to as a standards laboratory in space.

A Chinese probe sent to the Moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades successfully landed on 1 December 20230, Beijing’s space agency said.

OneWeb Satellites has returned to full-scale production of spacecraft after its client and part owner, OneWeb, emerged from bankruptcy.

ESA has signed an EUR86 million contract with an industrial team led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit.