Satellite News

U.S. Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Production Corps achieved a major milestone with the completion of the final Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, SBIRS Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)-6 at Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, California production facility.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signalling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete.

On 30 September, SpaceX completed its 23rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) when its Dragon spacecraft safely splashed into the water off the coast of Florida.

A recent RS-25 engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center completed the Retrofit-2 test series, which validated modernised, lower-cost components for new RS-25 engines to be used on the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket.

Aistech Space SL, a high-resolution thermal imaging service provider, has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd, a satellite and in-orbit service provider, to fly its first Guardian mission scheduled for launch in Q4 2021 onboard a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission.

ESA’s Euclid mission has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space.

One of the two planned Soyuz-ST rocket launches this year from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana has been postponed until 2022, two sources was quoted as saying by Sputnik news agency.

Eutelsat Communications confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, preliminary and non-binding proposal from Patrick Drahi in connection with a potential transaction on all of the company’s share capital.

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