Satellite News

In its continuing effort to improve NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) ion engine, the agency recently completed a series of tests that mimic the requirements of a wide range of ambitious missions.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has moved the NPOESS Preparatory Satellite (NPP) to the thermal vacuum chamber for final testing.
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The James Webb Space Telescope reached another key milestone with the delivery of the pathfinder backplane to Northrop Grumman, prime contractor on the programme. In related news, the first JWST primary mirror segments will begin final round-the-clock cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Northrop Grumman will use an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads.
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Two recent Ballistic Missile Defense System-wide (BMDS) tests involving the Northrop Grumman Corporation-built Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites showed that the satellite system can successfully perform full-course, or ‘birth-to-death’ tracking of a ballistic missile.
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India’s state-run National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has set up a new acoustic test facility for ISRO satellites.
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