Satellite News

US-based EOS Data Analytics Inc. (EOS), a space portfolio company of Noosphere Ventures, has unveiled EOS SAR – a project to develop its own synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors intended for deployment in a constellation of microsatellites.

Russia’s Roskosmos state space corporation has launched the operation of its Kanopus-V satellite system to monitor natural and man-made disasters.

Russian space agency Roskosmos patented a spacecraft which can change its shape if approached by a foreign spy satellite, according to a descriptive note attached to the patent.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly US$163.9 million for support of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

Cobham Gaisler announced that a consortium it is leading has been awarded a development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) that will result in the design of an accelerator board suitable for Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for in-orbit space use.

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on 1 October. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft’s power system.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has released a small rover that will land on the surface of asteroid Ryugu as part its final mission before heading back to Earth, Japan’s space agency JAXA said.

The Quantum satellite – Europe’s reprogrammable telecommunications satellite – built through an ESA Partnership Project with its operator Eutelsat successfully completed thermal vacuum testing on 28 September.