Satellite News

Aerojet announced that its ion propulsion engine – built in partnership between Aerojet and NASA’s Glenn Research Center – has completed a test series encompassing the requirements of a wide range of space missions, including the recently announced Flagship Technology Demonstrator first mission (FTD-1).

Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it hosted a visiting committee meeting on the status of the next-generation GLONASS-K spacecraft currently in production at the company.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced the award of several contracts to develop advanced technology concepts for NASA’s New Frontiers Program.

On 24 June 2010, only 3 days and 14 hours into the mission, the TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) satellite sent its first image data back to Earth. The transmission was received by the German Aerospace Center ground station at Neustrelitz and processed to produce images.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced it has installed new hardware and software upgrades at its satellite operations and control centre located in Milpitas, California and its backup control centre located in El Dorado Hills, California.
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NASA said it will shut down its first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, on 27 June.
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The U.S. Air Force announced that U.S. Strategic Command operationally accepted command and control of its third Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, WGS-3.
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The environmentally benign propulsion system HPGP (High Performance Green Propulsion), which makes it first spaceflight ever on the Swedish Prisma satellites, has been testfired for the first time in space.
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