Satellite News

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the country plans to launch seven GLONASS satellites this year.

The Kepler project team successfully completed another science data download on 19 to 21 March 2010. This download of data included science data collected since 5 February 2010, following the safe mode recovery that occurred in early February. New software to be uploaded later this month is to help prevent similar hiccups.

Raytheon Company was awarded a NASA Goddard contract to maintain and manage large volumes of sensing data and imagery from space instruments.

SES World Skies announced that the SES-1 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan onboard an Antonov cargo plane.
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COM DEV International Ltd. said it has begun work on the design phase (Phase C) of the Canadian Space Agency’s Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM).
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The Bolivian government and Great Wall Industries Corporation (GWIC) have signed a memorandum of understanding on helping Bolivia launch the Tupac Katari communications satellite in 2013.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit skipped a planned communication session on 30 March and, as anticipated from recent power-supply projections, has probably entered a low-power hibernation mode.

ESA said it is asking industry to submit proposals for a Lunar Lander mission to the moon’s south polar region.