Satellite News

Hayabusa2 has completed all its major observation missions for the asteroid Ryugu, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

York Space Systems, an aerospace company specialising in turn-key space segment customer solutions and the manufacturer of standardised spacecraft platforms for rapid deployment, has announced plans for the expansion of its production facilities to expedite the mass manufacturing of the S-CLASS platform, escalating production capabilities from ten satellites per year to hundreds.

OneWeb has awarded a subcontract to D-Orbit SpA for the development of an active debris removal (ADR) mission in the frame of European Space Agency (ESA) Project Sunrise.

GomSpace’s subsidiary in Sweden and ESA have signed a contract to develop a miniaturised electric propulsion system suitable for small spacecraft going on interplanetary missions.

Eutelsat Communications has signed a letter of agreement with Thales Alenia Space for the procurement of Eutelsat 10B, a new all-electric satellite built on the Spacebus NEO platform.

Eutelsat Communications said is currently investigating an incident on one of the two solar arrays on its Eutelsat 5 West B satellite.

NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter’s latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on 21 October when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.