Satellite News

NASA will fly two nanosatellites as secondary payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket planned for launch in August or September.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it delivered a satellite for Intelsat to Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California/USA on 30 July.

A team led by Boeing Advanced Systems has been awarded a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the first phase of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

e2v has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide the high performance CCD image sensors to be used in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite.

Testing of Ekspress-AM44, started in April by the team of the JSC Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company (formerly NPO-PM) and Thales Alenia Space specialists, has successfully been completed.

COM DEV International Ltd. said that contract modifications to an existing civil space programme will provide the company with C$27 million (EUR17 million, US$26 million) of incremental revenue.

MacDonald Dettwiler announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from DigitalGlobe Inc.