Satellite News

The CHRIS multi-spectral payload imager completed seven years in orbit, its manufacturer SSTL said. A successor is under development.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 16 (F16) Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin , has surpassed five years of on-orbit operations and continues to provide critical weather data to the U.S. military, one year beyond its four year design life.

Astra 5A (Sirius 2, GE 1E), which went out of control on 22 October 2008, is reportedly working nominally again.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has signed a contract with China Satellite Communications Corporation and China Meteorological Administration for the development and launch of Sinosat-5, Sinosat-6, three FengYun-2 satellites and five Chang Zheng 3A rockets.

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced that both it and its joint venture partner Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc. have selected Telesat to manage in-orbit operations of both the MSV-1 and MSV-2 next-generation satellites to be launched into respective U.S. and Canadian orbital slots.

After 32 years of serving ships at sea and scientists at the South Pole, an ageing communications satellite owned by Intelsat Ltd. has been retired.

The Lockheed Martin team developing the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, has successfully completed on-schedule an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) with the U.S. Air Force.

Specialists have brought the malfunctioning KazSat 1 back under control and returned it to geostationary orbit after a nearly five-month outage.