Satellite News

For the first time, the compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle flight software has been successfully tested with the rest of the ISS flight software by international teams at the NASA Software Verification Facility (SVF) in Houston.

MESSENGER’s Radio Science (RS) team recently completed a month-long orbit simulation test to measure Doppler performance using the probe’s low-gain radio frequency (RF) antennas.

NASA’s New Horizons probe successfully completed a trajectory correction manoeuvre on its long journey to Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons probe successfully completed a trajectory correction manoeuvre on its long journey to Pluto.

The flight tests of a new-generation satellite intended to detect ballistic missile launches are to begin in 2009, Russian Space Troops Commander Col-Gen Vladimir Popovkin was quoted as saying.

The reentry capsule for the Foton-M3 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 12 days, successfully landed in an uninhabited area 150 km south of the town of Kustanay in Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border, today at 0758 UTC.

The Russian Progress M-60 cargo spacecraft ended its five-day research mission that began after undocking from the ISS, and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean earlier today.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is still scheduled for launch on 27 September, at the opening of a window that extends from 1120 to 1149 UTC, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Delta II Heavy.