Satellite News

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric) has selected Integral Systems’ EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) to support its DS2000 satellite platform.

Satellite solutions provider Americom Government Services (AGS) and its partners Orbital Sciences Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) successfully completed the Space Segment Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) programme.

After lift-off on 17 March, ESA’s GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned, the agency said. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures.
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India plans to launch its Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) aboard a PSLV in a few weeks’ time – but according to media reports it is not the Indian-made spacecraft that had originally been announced.
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Omid-1, Iran’s first domestically produced satellite, has ended its test and successfully accomplished its seven-week mission, state television reported.
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SES Astra has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to provide services to the European navigation service EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service). EGNOS is managed by the EC on behalf of the European Union (EU).

TerreStar Corporation and its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc. provided an update on progress towards launching its 2 GHz mobile services satellite, TerreStar- 1.

COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded a number of contracts and authorisations to proceed (ATPs) for work on a large European commercial satellite programme.
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