Satellite News

Astrium has been awarded a contract by Hispasat to design and build Amazonas-2.

The DirecTV 10 spacecraft has arrived at the Yubileiny airport of the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft swung by Venus for the second time early this evening for a gravity assist that shrank the radius of its orbit around the Sun, pulling it closer to Mercury. At nearly 24,000 km/h, this change in MESSENGER’s velocity is the largest of the mission.

Boeing said it has successfully completed end-to-end testing of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS, f.k.a. Wideband Gapfiller Satellite) payload command and control system, paving the way for the launch of the first WGS satellite this summer.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully completed its Baseline Design Review for a Geostationary Mini-satellite Platform (GMP). The EUR2.28 million pre-development project forms part of ESA’s Advanced Research in TElecommunications Systems funding stream for ESA/Industry partnerships (ARTES 4).

The Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered key ground segment software to support the launch of the programme’s first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite.

COM DEV International Ltd. has begun the production phase of its work on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

AeroAstro, along with prime contractor Ball Aerospace & Technologies, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the DoD Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) programme.