Satellite News

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and JAXA President Keiji Tachikawa signed an agreement defining the terms of co-operation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

The DRAGONSat mission, which consists of the BEVO-1 and AggieSat-2 picosatellites, has possibly run into trouble.

Last month’s award of three US$30-million concept development contracts for the Space Fence programme will yield an outcropping of risk reduction activities designed to improve the overall space surveillance network, the U.S. Air Force said.

Three of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments were mounted on a test stand at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

EMCORE Corporation said that a Boeing-led industry team has received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for work on Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) programme.

The U.S. Air Force has authorised continued development of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) programme that features Goodrich Corporation’s satellite.
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Boeing announced that the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) K programme successfully completed its Ground Detailed Design Review (GDDR), held last month at NASA’s White Sands Complex in New Mexico, USA.
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