L3Harris Completes Final US Missile Defense Agency Satellite Design Milestone
• Completes Critical Design Review (CDR) in support of urgent missile-tracking architecture • Buying and building in tandem enabled rapid demonstration to respond to threats • Follows 2020 Missile Defense Agency prototype award L3Harris Technologies completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) […]
SpaceX Falcon 9 Successfully Launches Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Satellite for NASA
Watch Launch Replay NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is the agency’s first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays. Polarized light is made up of electric fields that vibrate in a single direction—and IXPE’s state-of-the-art X-ray vision will help scientists study the spin of black holes, the magnetic fields of pulsars, and other […]
ESA Begins Design of Benchmark Climate Monitoring Satellite
ESA’s new TRUTHS satellite mission is taking shape and will provide measurements of incoming solar radiation and of radiation reflected from Earth back out into space as a traceable International System of Units.
New NASA satellite to continue half a century of changing Earth observations
Landsat has provided a critical reference for assessing long-term changes.
Next commercial Falcon Heavy mission to launch debut Astranis satellite
Astranis said Sept. 23 that SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will launch its first commercial satellite in a direct-inject mission to geostationary orbit (GEO) in spring 2022.
Fact check: False claim of an extraterrestrial satellite near Earth
Space is becoming yet another frontier for misinformation among social media users.
A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March – the first big space crash in a decade
A chunk of an old Russian rocket appears to have crashed into a Chinese satellite in March.
Indian launch attempt of earth observation satellite fails
An Indian rocket failed in its attempt Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters.
NOAA recovers from latest GOES-17 weather satellite issue, plans to replace it next year
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-East/17 has suffered another major issue while in orbit, as NOAA aims to replace the problematic satellite with GOES-T. GOES-17 is the second satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R program, a replacement to the aging GOES-N satellites.
Major Ocean-Observing Satellite – Copernicus Sentinel-6 – Goes Live!
Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is now operational – meaning that its data are available to climate researchers, ocean-weather forecasts and other data users.
