Satellite News

The Enhanced Polar System (EPS) was declared operational and handed over to U.S. Air Force operators following months of on-orbit check out and the successful completion of a Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).

Italian space transportation company D-Orbit announced the launch of Aurora, a customisable, cloud-based mission control software suite specially designed for the next-generation small satellite constellations.

NASA’s Lucy mission successfully completed its Critical Design Review on 18 October.

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it kicked off installation of a new testing complex at its Integration and Test Facility.

Rocket Lab unveiled plans to support extended range missions to medium, geostationary, and lunar orbits with the company’s Photon satellite platform.

At Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully validated its ability to perform key deployments for the first time since its post environmental testing of the Spacecraft Element (SCE) and integration of the SCE and Optical Telescope Element/Integrated Science Instrument Module (OTIS).

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), developed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin with ground systems provider General Dynamics Mission Systems, was deemed operationally effective, operationally suitable, and cyber survivable, following successful completion of its Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).

Originally slated for a two-year mission, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired just prior to running out of propellant, more than seven years after launch.