Satellite News

On 19 November 2009, the company e-GEOS, which is jointly owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency ASI, announced that it signed a contract with ESA to supply optical and radar satellite data for the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$200 million (EUR126 million, US$187 million) with the Russian Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR) to provide two advanced technology solutions for the Ekspress AM5 and Ekspress AM6 satellites.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been studying measures to deal with the anomaly detected in one of the four ion engines aboard the Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa.

Iridium Communications Inc. said that it has completed numerous technical studies, working with independent technology partners, which demonstrate the feasibility of hosting Earth observation and remote sensing payloads on its planned/proposed next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT.

Thales Alenia Space has delivered the second flight model high-resolution (HR) optical imaging instrument for integration, testing and validation in the Pleiades Earth observation satellite in construction at Astrium facilities in Toulouse.

The MIRAS instrument on ESA’s SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the role these two key variables play in regulating Earth’s water cycle.

A Proton M/Briz M is to launch Eutelsat W7 on 23 November, 1419 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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Using technology developed for the U.S. ballistic missile defence system, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed hot-fire thruster tests demonstrating the ability of miniaturised thrusters to perform the descent and landing operation for a new generation of multi-use robotic lunar landers.
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