Satellite News

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a hot-fire test on its flight-representative 1 Newton (1N) thruster at the company’s specially designated green propellant facility in Redmond, Washington.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received a follow-on contract for C$6.6 million from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The total contract value to-date is C$25 million.

The Russian Transport Ministry has requested Roskosmos to restore the low-orbit segment of the COSPAS-SARSAT international search and rescue satellite system, a ministry official said on Thursday.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with ARSAT Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales SA, to supply the payload for the third geostationary telecom satellite manufactured in Argentina, ARSAT-3, as well as options for two additional payloads.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected four companies to conduct design studies for a solar-electric-propulsion-based spacecraft for the agency’s Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM).

Air Liquide has signed two multi-year contracts recently, a total worth of EUR20 million, for the supply of high purity xenon in the all-electric propulsion satellite market: one with Airbus Defence and Space and one with Thales Alenia Space.

NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) is requesting proposals from industry to provide small spacecraft for its Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD) missions that will include government-furnished technology payloads for a series of flight demonstrations.

Marotta Controls announced that it has been awarded a contract from Thales Alenia Space UK Ltd to develop the Xenon Pressure Regulation Assembly (XPRA) for the electric propulsion system of its new Spacebus Neo satellite platform.