Satellite News

NASA scientists and engineers have completed final testing and integration of the GLAST Burst Monitor, a space-based instrument for studying gamma ray bursts.

The largest optical mirror ever built for a mission beyond Earth’s orbit has arrived at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for environmental testing and spacecraft integration. The 1.4-meter primary mirror was produced by subcontractor L-3 Communications Brashear.

ITT Corporation has completed and shipped the imaging sensor for DigitalGlobe’s next generation WorldView 1 satellite.

SMART-1, the first European spacecraft to the Moon, is about to end its mission after almost sixteen months of lunar science investigations.

Electro Energy Inc. , a developer and manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, announced that the Super NiCd battery produced by its subsidiary, Mobile Energy Products Inc. (MEP), was successfully launched on board the KOMPSAT 2 (Arirang-2) satellite by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) on 28 July 2006.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate has chosen Lockheed Martin to provide engineering design and development support for the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space satellite programme.

Spacehab, Incorporated announced that its spacecraft processing and facility services subsidiary, Astrotech Space Operations, has been awarded a new US$1.6 million payload processing contract by Boeing to support the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Orbital Express mission.

Lockheed Martin said it had delivered the flight structure for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) spacecraft on schedule.