Satellite News

Officials from the Air Space command’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced the first GPS IIF satellite (SVN-62) arrived on-station on 1 August.

India plans to launch the SARAL satellite,developed in co-operation with France, to monitor the sea water level by 2011.

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is warming up. The spacecraft is running out of the frozen coolant needed to keep its heat-sensitive instrument chilled.

SEAKR Engineering, Inc., a privately held company, announced that Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the Iridium NEXT prime contractor, has awarded the communication processor for the Iridium NEXT constellation to SEAKR Engineering.

Students from the Colorado Space Grant Consortium (COSGC) have teamed with Lockheed Martin to develop a miniature satellite, known as ALL-STAR, which stands for Agile Low-cost Laboratory for Space Technology Acceleration and Research.

Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd. announced that fuel on its interim Amos 5i communications satellite will run out before the Amos 5 satellite is launched.
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The European Space Agency has awarded a Contract Change Notice to Thales Alenia Space worth EUR98 million for the ExoMars mission to Mars. This latest contract covers the second extension of the mission’s Phase B2 (B2X2) and the second major segment of the program’s development to prepare the production phase (advanced C/D).