An engineering copy of ESA’s Gaia satellite in Toulouse was linked to the mission control system at ESOC in Germany this week, enabling flight controllers to send commands and receive data just as they will once the actual satellite is in orbit. The System Validation Test (SVT) on 5–6 September was the final in a … Dowiedz się więcej
Thousands of never-before-seen data products from the US Landsat satellites acquired over 30 years have been released for online access. In addition, the newest data over Europe from the latest satellite in the series, Landsat-8, are now accessible in near-real time through a new portal hosted by ESA. About 150 000 new products from the … 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 received an order from Eutelsat to upgrade multiple satID® geolocation systems. satID is SAT’s industry-leading RF interference geolocation product that provides an accurate, fast, all-in-one solution for locating and identifying sources of interference … Dowiedz się więcej
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) received Interim Authorization to Test (IATT) security certification for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) Launch and Checkout System (LCS) four months ahead of schedule. Raytheon received a one-year certification with no liens, meaning the government does not require any changes. The LCS IATT certification enables … Dowiedz się więcej
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] A2100 communications satellite series has achieved a major milestone by achieving over 400 cumulative years of successful, in-orbit operations. „The versatile and configurable A2100 common platform offers both our commercial and government customers reduced cost and risk while ensuring mission success, high reliability and outstanding sustained performance,” said Linda Reiners, … Dowiedz się więcej
Ten years ago, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope – built, integrated and tested at Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems in Sunnyvale – roared into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the observatory into an Earth-trailing orbit around the sun. The Spitzer Space Telescope is a space-borne, cryogenically-cooled infrared observatory that studies objects … Dowiedz się więcej