Satellite News

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems multiple contracts to supply critical hardware for the Mars 2020 mission.

NASA is contractually extending science operations for its Hubble Space Telescope an additional five years. The agency awarded a sole source contract extension to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for continued Hubble science operations support at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a US$25.2 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for work on the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate’s Space Based Infra-Red Systems programme.

EUMETSAT and CNES have signed an agreement on ARGOS receivers to fly on METOP-SG satellites.

The recently launched U.S. military communications satellite MUOS 5 has experienced an anomaly during its transfer to geosynchronous orbit and is currently stuck in an intermediate orbit.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company has completed testing service subsystems of the geodetic satellite GEO-IK-2.

The engineers and scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission are preparing the newly arrived Jupiter orbiter for operations around the largest planetary inhabitant in the solar system.

Airbus Defence and Space has won its third contract in 18 months for its latest GaN SSPAs, bringing the total ordered to more than 350.