Satellite

Americas Space 

Raytheon Builds Small Satellites for U.S. Department of Homeland Security

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Millennium Engineering and Integration (MEI), ORS 7 (Polar Scout), Raytheon, Satellite, U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US DOD Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), USA

Raytheon has built two small, Polar Scout satellites for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in partnership with Millennium Engineering

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Americas Space 

General Atomics Completes Pre-Flight Testing of Orbital Test Bed (OTB) Satellite

April 24, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Falcon Heavy, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), NASA, Orbital Test Bed (OTB) Satellite, Satellite, Space Test Program-2 (STP-2), U.S. Air Force (USAF), US DoD Space Test Program (STP), USA

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has completed full system and “ready for launch” pre-flight testing of its

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Americas Space 

Orbital ATK Introduces Next Generation of In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Technology

March 17, 2018March 17, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Mission Extension Pod (MEP), Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), Orbital ATK, Satellite, SATELLITE 2018

Orbital ATK announced its plan for the company’s next generation of satellite life extension and in-space satellite servicing products. During

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Americas Space 

Northrop Grumman to Supply Space Navigation System to Space Systems Loral

March 2, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Inertial Reference Unit (IRU), Maxar Technologies (MDA), Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU, Satellite, Space Systems Loral (SSL)

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from Space Systems Loral (SSL) to supply its space navigation system for

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Americas Space 

TDRS-13 Becomes Tenth Operational Satellite in Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

February 18, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments NASA, Satellite, Tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS), USA

Following its August launch and a five-month period of in-orbit testing, the third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), referred

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Europe Space 

ESA’s Aeolus Wind Sensing Satellite Completes Extensive Tests

February 12, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments ADM-Aeolus, Airbus, Arianespace, Arianespace Vega, Belgium, Earth observation satellite, European Space Agency (ESA), France, French Guiana, Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Satellite

Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) wind sensing satellite, has left Liège in Belgium having successfully completed an extensive thermal

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Americas Space 

MDA to Develop Threat Detection System to Protect Canadian Space-based Assets

January 23, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Canada, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), Maxar Technologies (MDA), MDA (MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Satellite

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), announced that it has been awarded a contract by Public

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Europe Space 

ICEYE Successfully Launches World’s First SAR Microsatellite, ICEYE-X1

January 16, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Finland, ICEYE, ICEYE-X1, India, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Satellite, Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Finnish startup company, ICEYE announced the successful launch of its proof-of-concept satellite mission, ICEYE-X1, on Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C40

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Americas Space 

Orbital ATK Receives Order for Second In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Vehicle, MEV-2

January 14, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Intelsat, Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), Orbital ATK, Satellite, USA

Orbital ATK has been awarded a contract for a second Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2). The vehicle was ordered by Intelsat

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Americas Space 

Twin GRACE-FO gravity research satellites arrives in the U.S. for launch

December 12, 2017December 12, 2017 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Airbus DS Space Systems, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany, GRACE-FO, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Satellite, USA, Vandenberg AFB

The twin GRACE-FO gravity research satellites built and developed by Airbus in Friedrichshafen (Germany) were loaded overnight onto an air

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