Satellite News

Boeing announced that it will add improved capabilities to its technology for the U.S. Air Force’s Operational Control Segment (OCS) satellite ground-control system.

Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the third sensor of five has been delivered to NASA for integration onto the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft.

An on-board computer (OBC) specially built by British small satellite manufacturer SSTL will help the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 search for water by controlling the U.S Navy’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload.

The Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI), one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) carried by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, has successfully been turned on on 16 November 2008.

Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite last week at the Payload Processing Facility at Sea Launch Home Port in the Port of Long Beach.

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft – the first mission designed to image the interaction at the edge of the solar system – has concluded its orbit-raising phase and is beginning instrument commissioning in preparation to start science observations.

The first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-1) payload and ground system, built by a Lockheed Martin team, has been accepted for operations by the U.S Air Force.

India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface.