Satellite News

The first GLONASS-K type navigation satellite, launched from Plesetsk on 28 February, has been successfully undergoing flight and design tests, head of the Russian Space System holding and General Designer of the GLONASS system, Yuri Urlichich, was quoted as saying.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its U.S. operation received a US$4 million contract to provide Lockheed Martin with an advanced technology solution for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM).
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NigeriaSat-2 has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. The satellite will lift-off from Yasny in southern Russia on 17 August, together with NigeriaSat-X, which was built under a training and development programme.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) in May finalised a Memorandum of Agreement to integrate and launch science and technology experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2013.
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Andrews Space and ISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space BV (ISIS) – announced that they have teamed to offer the SENTRY Nanospacecraft platform to international customers.
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“Edoardo Amaldi,” the third European cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), is on its way to the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$11 million to provide Radarsat-2 satellite imagery to the European Space Agency (ESA). The imagery will be delivered from June 2011 until May 2014.
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The Arabsat 5C satellite built by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space has left the Astrium facilities in Toulouse, France, and was transported by air to Kourou, French Guiana, in preparation for its launch by an Ariane 5 vehicle in September 2011.
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