Satellite News

Boeing announced that the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite built for the U.S. Air Force was shipped on 28 September to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be tested and prepared for a November launch.

Jazz Semiconductor, a Tower Group company, and ADSANTEC, a fabless [i.e. without own fabrication facilities] design house, announced their SERDES [Serialiser/Deserialiser] solution has been selected by NASA for its Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

Astrium has successfully completed the Engineering Test Unit (ETU) for the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). NIRSpec will be integrated in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and will peer into the origins of the Universe.

Telesat announced that its new Nimiq 5 broadcast satellite was placed into commercial service on 10 October.

Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) programme.

The last remaining travelling wave tube amplifier aboard NASA’s first TDRS satellite has failed, causing the agency to retire the satellite after almost 26 years of service.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Comtech AeroAstro, Inc., has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for the development of Advanced Plug and Play Technologies for space missions.

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon’s surface in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyse data from the spacecraft’s instruments to assess whether water ice is present. However, there was no immediate result.
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