Satellite News

The VIIRS sensor for the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System (NPOESS) has successfully completed all testing at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s subcontractor, Raytheon Company, and is ready for delivery.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Space Systems/Loral Inc.
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SES S.A. and Astrium announced that SES has ordered four multi-mission satellites from Astrium to provide replacement as well as incremental capacity for its SES Astra and SES World Skies divisions.

The last of the three GLONASS-M navigation spacecraft intended for cluster 41 was delivered to Baikonur on 27 November 2009 by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to build a second Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) in support of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

The launch of Intelsat-15 aboard a Zenit-3SLB has been delayed owing to technical issues. Nonetheless the Intelsat fleet has grown with the arrival of Intelsat-24 at 45.3 degrees East.

Koreasat-6 satellite prime contractor Thales Alenia Space announced that it has shipped the payload to Orbital Sciences Corporation for final integration aboard their STAR-2 platform.
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Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems is currently conducting development tests of the onboard control subsystem designed for the new-generation navigation spacecraft GLONASS-K.
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