Satellite News

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed two significant milestones for the Kepler Mission: the precision coating process of Kepler’s primary mirror, and the integration of the detector array assembly.

Spanish satellite ground segment software company GMV said it launched SmartRings 2.0, the latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, SmartRings.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on its own mobile communications satellite, GSAT-6/INSAT-4E.

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Program, has awarded an instrument contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation.

NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe.

Brazil received the first signals from the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS-2B), the country’s National Satellite Control Space Research Agency (INPE) said.

The U.S. Air Force announced that the payload equipment module of the Flight 3 Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California and safely arrived at Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, California, on 14 September.

ECAPS, a joint venture of the Swedish Space Corporation and Volvo, has delivered a HPGP (High Performance Green Propulsion) system to SSC for the Prisma satellite mission.