Thales Alenia Space Italy has been awarded a contract by the Italian Space Agency to build the Metis (Multi Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) instrument, in conjunction with the company CGS S.p.A. (Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio). The Metis instrument will be used on the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter scientific satellite. The Solar … Dowiedz się więcej
Braving high winds, dust devils and unpredictable terrain, ESA’s test rover has completed its exploration across – and under – Chile’s Mars-like Atacama Desert. The five-day Sample Acquisition Field Experiment with a Rover, or SAFER, field trial concluded on Saturday 12 October. An early version of ESA’s 2018 ExoMars rover fitted with a trio of … Dowiedz się więcej
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its SAT Corporation (SAT) subsidiary has been selected by Inmarsat to provide SAT’s industry-leading carrier monitoring and interference detection system, Monics®. Monics is the enterprise-networked DSP spectrum measurement and interference analysis system used by 90% of the world’s top … Dowiedz się więcej
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), whose terminals protect the military’s most sensitive satellite communications, recently held a demonstration that proved sensitive data could be passed through small, low-cost satellite terminals using an unclassified but secure waveform. A benefit of this approach would be that front-line tactical users, such as forward deployed forces or remotely piloted aircraft, … Dowiedz się więcej
Boeing [NYSE: BA] will further strengthen Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite network under an exercised option to build a fourth Inmarsat-5 spacecraft. Global Xpress will provide Inmarsat’s government and commercial customers with mobile broadband connectivity on land, at sea and in the air. “Receiving this option to our initial three-satellite agreement with Inmarsat positions Boeing as … Dowiedz się więcej
At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s 2013 NASA Honor Awards Ceremony on Thursday 10 October, JPL Director Charles Elachi presented an award on behalf of NASA to the French and U.S. teams who worked on ChemCam and SAM, for their exceptional contribution to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. CNES is funding, managing and providing technical … Dowiedz się więcej