Satellite News

The BEVO-1 and AggieSat-2 picosatellites have indeed not separated as planned after their recent release from space shuttle Endeavour. Apart from that, AggieSat-2 appears to be healthy, the team at Texas A&M University said.
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Lockheed Martin broke ground recently on two new facilities at its Space Systems Company operations in Newtown, Pennsylvania/USA, that will support spacecraft programmes for government and commercial customers.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been restored to full operations, making intensive science observations of Mars, four days after it unexpectedly switched to its backup computer.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite.
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Just over one week after the launch of the UK-DMC2 satellite on 29 July, the first full resolution commercial grade image has been acquired and processed, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited said.
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Raytheon Company said it has developed the world’s largest infrared light-wave detector, expanding current capabilities in missile warning, environmental monitoring and astronomical research.
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The last in a series of eight modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force is set to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on 17 August from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. In related news, the root cause of a problem with the satellite’s predecessor [as far as the launch order is concerned] has been identified.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on 6 August.
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