Satellite News

SSTL’s UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on 29 July 2009 at 1846 UTC.
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NASA is designing a mission to investigate magnetic reconnection, one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission, it was approved for implementation last month following a successful Preliminary Design Review in May 2009.
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China has delayed the launch of its first space telescope by two years for cost reasons, Xinhua news agency reports.
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The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed final thermal vacuum testing.
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ISS-Reshetnev said has been involved in the Russian Arktika satellite project for over a year.
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Boeing said it has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide a subsystem for a new spacecraft that will help scientists understand the effects of global warming on water systems and crop yields. The terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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An instrument being built by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has completed a key production milestone, Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR).
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Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd expects to announce plans to launch a fifth satellite within the next six to 12 months.
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