EDRS-A, the first orbital component in the European Space Agency’s Space Data Highway high-speed laser communications system, is slated to be launched to geostationary orbit aboard an ILS Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 28. The Space Data Highway will provide communications at up to 1.8 Gigabit per second, capable of relaying data from “Earth observation satellites, UAVs and surveillance aircraft, or even from a space station such as the ISS,” industrial partner Airbus Defense & Space says.
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Monday, Jan. 18. The next issue will be dated Jan. 20.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 20-22—AHS Technical Meeting on Aeromechanics Design for Vertical Lift, Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, California. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/aeromechanics-design-for-vertical-lift
SpaceX successfully launched the Jason-3 ocean altimetry mission to low Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket Jan. 17, though an attempt to land the vehicle's core stage on a barge in the Pacific Ocean was unsuccessful.
ARLINGTON, Virginia — Raytheon recently completed the first full array for its AN/SPY- 6(V) Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) in 140 days. the company says.
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) believes its Dream Chaser vehicle’s capability and the billions it will earn delivering supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) will allow the company to complete development of a human-rated version.
NASA abruptly halted a planned 6 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station by U.S. and U.K. astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on Jan. 15 when water appeared in the helmet of Kopra’s NASA spacesuit.
Orbital ATK plans to start ground tests next year of first elements for an all-new, next-generation launch vehicle to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will spend €5.25 billion ($5.75 billion) this year, an increase over the €4.43 billion the agency spent last year that includes a boost in funding from the European Commission.
NASA’s new Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) places a fresh, top-level agency focus on the detection and tracking of asteroids and comets that could threaten Earth, as well as the coordination of interagency and intergovernmental response efforts.
Raytheon completed a successful captive flight test of a seeker designed for the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile, the company says. The seeker will enable Tomahawk to engage moving targets on land and at sea.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will join incumbents Orbital ATK and SpaceX in NASA’s $14 billion second-round contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
The European Space Agency is expected to ask member states next December for a three-year portion of financing valued at several hundred million euros to fund the agency’s continued participation in the NASA-led International Space Station.
Work on a deep-space cargo vehicle and a robotic lunar lander is included in a $1.3 billion budget request from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for fiscal 2016.
Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace will vote by Feb. 10 on whether to accept the terms of a new six-year contract extension tentatively agreed to with Boeing during secret negotiations.
The German government says it has begun negotiations with Israel to purchase the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron TP medium altitude, long-endurance unmanned air vehicle.
