ENENSYS Technologies, provider of media delivery solutions, is collaborating with Telespazio, a Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%) joint venture, to provide EUMETSAT with a new uplink service for EUMETCast Europe , a […]
Weather Satellites
NOAA awards geostationary ground system sustainment services contract
NOAA has awarded the Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services (GGSS) contract to L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Palm Bay, Florida. The five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract will provide sustainment services to […]
ESA’s wind mission satellite Aeolus to die fiery death setting standard for safe reentry
ESA’s wind mission, Aeolus, will soon be lowered in orbit leading to its fiery reentry and burn-up through Earth’s atmosphere. ESA’s efforts to ensure a safe return surpass international standards […]
UPDATE 3: Rocket Lab pushes NASA’s TROPICS mission to orbit… Rocket Lab’s official launch report…
The ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ launch lifted-off on May 8th. at 13:00 NZST (01:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula deploying two of the […]
Rocket Lab to launch NASA’s Cyclone-Tracking Satellite Constellation from New Zealand
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch NASA’s TROPICS constellation across two dedicated Electron missions lifting off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, scheduled for May of 2023. […]
The 1st pair of 2Gen Airbus-built weather satellites enter test phase
The Airbus built satellite twins, MetOp-SG A and B, will provide a panoply of new meteorological data that will substantially improve numerical weather prediction — the backbone of our daily […]