Satellite News

A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team announced that the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III constellation has surpassed 200 years of on-orbit operations.

Maido No. 1, a small satellite launched along with the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Ibuki in January, has succeeded in observing electromagnetic waves emitted by thunderstorms, Osaka University officials said.
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Alliant Techsystems has started to assemble the Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure, or spine, of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at its Magna, Utah/USA, facility.
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The Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system on EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite is operational again following a successful two-month trial in October-November.
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Two physically intact satellites have collided in low-Earth orbit in an unprecedented incident, creating a cloud of orbital debris the size of which is yet unknown. The spacecraft involved are Kosmos 2251, a defunct Russian military satellite, and Iridium 33, an operational spacecraft in the Iridium phone satellite constellation.

SES S.A.has signed a contract with Space Systems/Loral for the procurement of QuetzSat-1, a high-power communications satellite with coverage of Mexico, North America and Central America.

Harris Corporation said it recently delivered its proposal for a total, end-to-end solution for the ground segment of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) programme.

ESA’s Herschel and Planck missions that will study the formation of stars and galaxies and the relic radiation from the Big Bang, respectively, have successfully completed their test campaigns in Europe. The two spacecraft will soon be shipped to Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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