Satellite News

Preparations for launching NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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GIOVE-A, the first satellite in the Europe-led Galileo satellite navigation system celebrates 27 months in orbit this month, marking the completion of its nominal mission lifetime.
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COM DEV International Ltd. said it has successfully completed an end-to-end ground-based test of its advanced AIS payload and nanosatellite. The company also provided an update on its acquisition of the Passive Microwave Devices product line from L-3 Communications.
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Boeing has submitted a proposal to NASA for the production of two next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, known as the GOES R series, for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Spacecom’s newest satellite, Amos-3, has completed testing and has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan.
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Navigating for the first time with a laser-based optical system, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) today moved to within just 11 metres of the ISS’ docking port, ESA said. An escape manoeuvre then concluded this second day of tests in orbit.
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Raytheon Company has completed the System Requirements Review (SRR) for the U.S. Air Force on the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Control Segment (OCX).

Jules Verne ATV successfully performed two boosts today, bringing the spacecraft to an altitude of 303 km – half-way between the insertion orbit reached after last Sunday’s launch and the orbit of the International Space Station.