Satellite News

Eutelsat Communications has selected Thales Alenia Space to build the W3C satellite. Eutelsat will select the launcher for the satellite separately at a later stage, the company said.

The Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), an advanced scientific instrument that will be launched on the Glory satellite, has successfully completed environmental testing and was officially turned over to NASA on 11 March by the Raytheon Company, which built the instrument.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has properly followed commands to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey’s last reboot.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite for the U.S. Air Force on 14 March from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch window is 0125 – 0203 UTC. If the launch scrubs, the next attempt is set for 16 March with a launch window of 0124 – 0202 UTC.
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The team operating NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is part of the navigation system.
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The SERVIS-2 satellite successfully underwent its mechanical and electrical fit check to the flight model launch vehicle hardware at the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) facilities in Kamakura, Japan.
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