Satellite News

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on 25 May to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm. It was also the first time a Mars probe was photographed during landing by an orbiting satellite.
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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft is healthy, right on target, and even predicted to have good landing weather on 25 May, team leaders from The University of Arizona, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin said at a news briefing.
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As NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a landing on Mars, engineers from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations centre at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the company said.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected to support seven NASA astrophysics strategic mission concept studies for its next generation of major space observatories.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed the system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX).
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ESA said its Mars Express mission control team have completed major preparations for supporting the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase of NASA’s Phoenix mission to the Red Planet.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar upgrade contract to supply a confidential customer with additional capabilities for a complete system solution for a high-resolution satellite programme.
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Integral Systems, Inc. , announced that is has completed the initial phase of a contract with Telesat to support activities associated with integrating the Loral Skynet and Telesat Canada satellite fleet operations under Telesat.
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