Satellite News

Boeing is (once again) looking to revive its commercial satellite business, in part by introducing a smaller, more flexible line of spacecraft, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A few details on Iridium’s planned new satellite constellation have been reported by the East Valley Tribune.

ESA mission controllers have confirmed Rosetta is on track for a critical 250-km Mars swingby on 25 February. Engineers have started final preparations for the operation, which includes an eclipse, a signal blackout, precise navigation and complex ground tracking.

ISRO has announced its plans to launch three meteorological satellites, at least two of them long-delayed, in the next couple of years.

ISRO has announced its plans to launch three meteorological satellites, at least two of them long-delayed, in the next couple of years.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) said it recently completed satellite support operations for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) programme. SS/L provided five advanced weather satellites, GOES-I through GOES-M, and on-orbit services to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

COROT, the satellite to probe into the interiors of stars and to look for extra-solar planets, has completed its in-orbit verification and started science observations on 3 February.

SpaceDev said that its subsidiary, Starsys Inc., has successfully tested the low disturbance actuation system for the ground link antenna pointing gimbal for the GeoEye-1 satellite, currently being built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.