Satellite News

The first Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Space Development and Test Wing of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is scheduled to launch aboard a Minotaur IV rocket as part of the STP-S26 mission from Alaska’s Kodiak Launch Complex on 19 November.
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Goodrich Corporation gyroscopes have successfully passed in-orbit testing on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite during a mission to detect shifts in global ice cover.
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Japan’s exploration spacecraft Hayabusa has indeed, as hoped, returned the first ever samples from the surface of an asteroid, JAXA confirmed.
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Russia plans to launch another version of its modernised GLONASS-K navigation satellites in 2013. The GLONASS-K2 design is to offer new frequencies.
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A faulty GLONASS-M satellite was returned to its manufacturer, ISS-Reshetnev.

Two companies have signed contracts with Spaceopal GmbH, a joint venture between DLR-GfR mbH and the Italian company Telespazio S.p.A., which is responsible for managing and monitoring the Galileo satellites.

Acting as a contracting agent for the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has selected five companies to receive a contract for Modular Space Vehicles (MSV).

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its U.S. operation has signed an option under an existing agreement to provide an advanced technology solution to Orbital Sciences Corporation for its Star-2 satellites.