Until February 2020, when a satellite on orbit ran out of propellant, that was the end of its life. Most major communications and military satellites are designed with prolonged lifetimes and carry enough fuel for a 15 year mission.
But the struggle for some satellite operators has been that at the end of that 15 year period, satellites running out of fuel are still working perfectly well in every other regard. Therefore, perfectly good satellites have to be decommissioned. But not anymore.
Boeing is getting ready to conduct the next phase of the Green Run test campaign…
NASA Exploration Ground Systems and prime test and operations contractor Jacobs mated the first of…
NASA has initialized plans via a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for 12 additional Solid…
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is stepping into the launch processing flow for the…
For the first time in ten years, Solid Rocket Booster segments have arrived at the…
Following the NG-13 Cygnus resupply vehicle release from the grip of the Space Station Remote…
Arianespace has announced that the launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Center will resume soon.…
At various centers in the United States, Northrop Grumman is marching toward the OmegA rocket’s…
Northrop Grumman’s OmegA finished another step toward its first flight next year when it was…
Four and a half months after its launch on a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur…
Preparations continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first launch of the…
After a two-and-a-half day cruise to the International Space Station, the NG-13 Cygnus resupply craft…
A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops…
Following NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s requested, and the Federal Communications Commission approved, post-Station mission extension,…
For the first half of 2020, Antares will launch the Cygnus NG-13 mission to the…
While the main focus last weekend was on the successful launch of the Cygnus NG-12…
Less than 48 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia,…
With the first flight of the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract for NASA, Northrop…
Northrop Grumman has launched NASA’s ICON mission aboard its Pegasus XL rocket on Thursday following…
