Satellite News

U.S. scientists have warned that an instrument aboard the planned NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) weather satellite will be incapable of providing imagery for climate science applications.

Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (NuSTAR) scientific satellite.

SpaceDev has been awarded a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The BSAT-3a broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, is now operational for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems.

The BSAT-3a broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, is now operational for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems.

Maxwell Technologies Inc. has won a contract valued at approximately US$3 million from Astrium, United Kingdom, to supply single board computers (SBC) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia astronomy mission

Maxwell Technologies Inc. has won a contract valued at approximately US$3 million from Astrium, United Kingdom, to supply single board computers (SBC) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia astronomy mission

ESA member states participating in the GMES Programme have approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme.