Satellite News

NASA’s climatology satellite CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations), launched in April 2006, has developed a problem with one of its instruments.
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Defence News recently reported that the United Arab Emirates were negotiating a commercial deal with Israel that would grant the Emirate of Abu Dhabi access to the Israeli-built Eros B satellite. UAE officials rejected the report and said the country chose Thales Alenia Space (Italy) as “strategic partner.”

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) payload for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the final flight module cooler assemblies for the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) sensor to ITT Corporation.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer on 23 February and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed integration of the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP).
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Satellite communication systems provider Integral Systems has acquired the intellectual property and other assets relating to the satID product line from UK-based defence and security technology company QinetiQ Group PLC.
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Telstar 11N, a new satellite for Telesat’s international fleet, is now scheduled for launch 26 February aboard a Zenit 3-SLB rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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