Satellite News

DigitalGlobe has revealed the first images from WorldView-1, according to the company the highest resolution, most agile commercial satellite ever flown.

The Japanese Kaguya moon probe has released its second “baby satellite” into lunar orbit.

SES announced the creation of a new division to consolidate satellite, ground, procurement, engineering and operational services for the group.

Australia-based BQT Solutions Limited’s subsidiary BQT Satellites (BQTSAT) said has completed phase 1 of a satellite project that has been awarded to the company in August 2007 by a semi governmental company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn’s eight-year, 1.6 billion-kilometer journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V is to launch the first Wideband Global Satellite Communications spacecraft (WGS, formerly Wideband Gapfiller Satellite) on 11 October within a launch window that extends from 0022 to 0133 UTC.

JAXA’s Kaguya moon probe successfully released the first of its two “baby satellites.”

Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with ground system teammate Raytheon, recently completed the System Acceptance Test (SAT) of a Common Command and Telemetry System (CCTS) that will potentially reduce costs between two programmes, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).