22 October 2006
Satcoms
CapRock Wins Tiburon
Divers Contract
Eutelsat Awards
Contract to Deliver Hot Bird 10 Broadcast Satellite to Astrium
Hughes Providing CSK Auto With Managed
Network Services Solution
Orbital-Built Optus D1 Communications
Satellite Successfully Launched Aboard Ariane Rocket
Phoenicia Group Wins VSAT Contract in Libya
from Occidental Petroleum Corporation
RAD and Shiron Announce Strategic
Co-operation to Optimise Bandwidth on Satellite Links
Earth Observation
Europe's First Polar-Orbiting
Weather Satellite Ready For Launch
Europe's New MetOp Weather Satellite Reaches
Polar Orbit
Greenland Ice Sheet on
a Downward Slide
ITT Sensors Aboard
First European Polar-orbiting Weather Satellite
NASA and NOAA Announce Antarctic Ozone Hole
Is a Record Breaker
USGS and NASA
Select Landsat Science Team
Military Space
Boeing Completes Successful FAB-T Preliminary
Design Review
Boeing to Build More
Wideband Gapfiller Satellites
Globecomm Systems Awarded Contract for Fifty
Auto-Explorer Satellite Terminals from US Navy
Harris Corporation Achieves Uplink to Milstar
Satellite Via Advanced EHF Navy Multiband Communications Terminal
TCS SwiftLink Systems and Global Satellite
Services Pass Stringent DoD Network Testing
Stars
First Directly Imaged Brown Dwarf Companion
to an Exoplanet Host Star
Galaxies
Super Star Clusters In The Antennae
Galaxies
Sun
Lockheed Martin Instrument to Monitor Solar
Eruptions on Latest NASA Sun Mission
Moon
The Moon's South Pole: Very High Resolution,
Radar Images Find Rocks Abundant, But No Ice Sheets
Earth
Expect a Warmer, Wetter World this Century,
Computer Models Agree
More Than a
Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65 Million Years Ago
Mars
Decoding Mars's Cryptic
Region
Mars Express and the Story of
Water on Mars
Mars May Be Cosy
Place for Hardy Microbes
NASA
Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old
Extra-Solar Planets
Planet-Finding by
Numbers
Manned
Space
International Space Station Status
Report
NASA Announces New
International Space Station Crew
Technology
Deployment Experiment Result of Large
Deployable Reflector Small-sized Partial Model 2 (LDREX-2)
First Photos of Japanese LDREX-2 Antenna
Deployment Released by JAXA
Launch Services
Fourth Ariane 5 Launch of 2006
Sea Launch Prepares for Launch of
XM-4
In
Orbit
Integral Systems to Provide Satellite Control
Systems for VINASAT-1 Satellite
Launches
MetOp-A
Launch
Schedule
Reports
Satellite Launches Are Just One of the Topics
Explored Inside 'Satellite Transponders - Global Strategic Business
Report'
Products and
Services
EchoStar Rolls Out High-Speed Internet
Service
MobiApps Announces Release
of Next Generation Orbcomm Modem
RAMTelecom Simplifies Satellite Broadband
Connections for Oil and Gas Sector with New Auto-mount
Antenna
Events
Dragon Training in China Focuses on
Atmosphere
People
New Appointments Within Alcatel Alenia
Space
Satcoms
CapRock Wins
Tiburon Divers Contract
(17 October 2006) Success in the commercial
diving industry is driven by a record of strong safety performance and
unmatched customer satisfaction.
Eutelsat Awards Contract to Deliver Hot Bird
10 Broadcast Satellite to Astrium
(19 October 2006) Eutelsat
Communications today announced that Astrium will build the Hot Bird 10
broadcast satellite which will be launched in first quarter 2009 and positioned
at the Group's 13 degrees East location.
Hughes Providing CSK Auto With Managed
Network Services Solution
(18 October 2006) Hughes Network Systems,
LLC, a leader in the top-tier managed network services market, today announced
that it has completed the rollout of HughesNet(TM) Managed Network Services at
1,175 CSK Auto retail locations.
Orbital-Built Optus D1 Communications
Satellite Successfully Launched Aboard Ariane Rocket
(16 October
2006) Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that the Optus D1 commercial
communications satellite, built by Orbital for Optus Networks Pty Limited
(Optus) of Australia, was successfully launched into its targeted orbit aboard
an Ariane 5 rocket on Friday, October 13.
Phoenicia Group Wins VSAT Contract in Libya
from Occidental Petroleum Corporation
(18 October 2006) Phoenicia
Group Libya LLC, a leading U.S.-Libyan integrated business advisory and
consultancy firm, announced today a one-year turn-key VSAT contract with Oxy
Libya LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
RAD and Shiron Announce Strategic
Co-operation to Optimise Bandwidth on Satellite Links
(19 October
2006) RAD Data Communications and Shiron Satellite Communications have
announced an agreement on strategic co-operation between their two companies
that will allow both providers and users of satellite services to maximise
bandwidth efficiencies.
Earth
Observation
Europe's First Polar-Orbiting Weather
Satellite Ready For Launch
(16 October 2006) Following the roll out
to the launch pad and erection at the launch tower at the weekend, MetOp is
ready for launch at 18:28 CEST tomorrow from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.
Europe's New MetOp
Weather Satellite Reaches Polar Orbit
(19 October 2006) For 28
years, Europe has been operating its famous Meteosat weather satellites in
geostationary orbit. Today, they were joined by the first of a brand new
generation of meteorological satellites.
Greenland Ice Sheet on a Downward
Slide
(19 October 2006) For the first time NASA scientists have
analysed data from direct, detailed satellite measurements to show that ice
losses now far surpass ice gains in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet.
ITT Sensors Aboard First European
Polar-orbiting Weather Satellite
(19 October 2006) ITT Corporation
today announced two sensors manufactured by ITT are aboard the first of three
European MetOp weather satellites launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan on October 19.
NASA and
NOAA Announce Antarctic Ozone Hole Is a Record Breaker
(19 October
2006) NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
scientists report this year's ozone hole in the polar region of the Southern
Hemisphere has broken records for area and depth.
USGS and NASA Select Landsat Science
Team
(13 October 2006) The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in
co-operation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
announces the selection of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Science
Team.
Military
Space
Boeing Completes Successful FAB-T Preliminary
Design Review
(17 October 2006) The Boeing Family of Advanced
Beyond-line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) program has successfully completed a
Preliminary Design Review, a key milestone as the program moves
forward.
Boeing to Build More
Wideband Gapfiller Satellites
(18 October 2006) Boeing and the U.S.
Air Force MILSATCOM Systems Wing have signed a US$ 1.067 billion contract for
up to three more Wideband Gapfiller Satellites (WGS), if all options are
exercised.
Globecomm Systems Awarded
Contract for Fifty Auto-Explorer Satellite Terminals from US
Navy
(20 October 2006) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of
end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, today announced that the
company has been awarded a contract for fifty Auto-Explorer satellite terminals
to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division valued at US$ 5.3
million.
Harris Corporation Achieves
Uplink to Milstar Satellite Via Advanced EHF Navy Multiband Communications
Terminal
(16 October 2006) Harris Corporation today announced that
it is the first company to successfully uplink to a Milstar satellite using an
Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype
system.
TCS SwiftLink Systems and
Global Satellite Services Pass Stringent DoD Network Testing
(17
October 2006) TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), a global leader in
mission-critical wireless data solutions, today announced its SwiftLink DVM-90
and SwiftLink 2410 deployable satellite communications systems, along with its
SwiftLink Global Satellite Services (GSS), have been successfully assessed for
use in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Boarding Team Communications (BTC)
network.
Stars
First Directly
Imaged Brown Dwarf Companion to an Exoplanet Host Star
(19 October
2006) Astronomers have detected a new faint companion to the star HD 3651,
already known to host a planet.
Galaxies
Super Star Clusters In The Antennae
Galaxies
(17 October 2006) This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope
image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of
galaxies.
Sun
Lockheed Martin
Instrument to Monitor Solar Eruptions on Latest NASA Sun Mission
(19
October 2006) The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) instrument - designed and
built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto - will soon begin returning stereo images
of the Sun's corona as part of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory
(STEREO).
Moon
The Moon's South
Pole: Very High Resolution, Radar Images Find Rocks Abundant, But No Ice
Sheets
(18 October 2006) Using the highest resolution radar-signal
images ever made of the moon - images from the National Science Foundation's
(NSF) Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF's Robert C. Byrd
Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va. - planetary astronomers have found no evidence
for ice in craters at the lunar south pole.
Earth
Expect a Warmer, Wetter World this Century,
Computer Models Agree
(19 October 2006) Recent episodes of deadly
heat in the United States and Europe, long dry spells across the U.S. West, and
heavy bursts of rain and snow across much of North America and Eurasia hint at
longer-term changes to come, according to a new study based on several of the
world's most advanced climate models.
More Than a Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65
Million Years Ago
(18 October 2006) Growing evidence shows that the
dinosaurs and their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub
meteor impact alone, according to a palaeontologist who says multiple meteor
impacts, massive volcanism in India and climate changes culminated in the end
of the Cretaceous Period.
Mars
Decoding Mars's Cryptic Region
(19
October 2006) Mars Express's OMEGA instrument has given planetary scientists
outstanding new clues to help solve the mystery of Mars's so-called 'cryptic
region'.
Mars Express and the Story
of Water on Mars
(16 October 2006) For a number of decades now,
astronomers have wondered about water on Mars. Thanks to ESA's Mars Express,
much of the speculation has been replaced with facts.
Mars May Be Cosy Place for Hardy
Microbes
(19 October 2006) A class of especially hardy microbes that
live in some of the harshest Earthly environments could flourish on cold Mars
and other chilly planets, according to a research team of astronomers and
microbiologists.
NASA Orbiter Reveals
New Details of Mars, Young and Old
(16 October 2006) During its
first week of observations from low orbit, NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is
already revealing new clues about both recent and ancient environments on the
red planet.
Extra-Solar
Planets
Planet-Finding by Numbers
(18
October 2006) More than a decade after the first planets beyond our solar
system were found, astronomers have discovered about 200 of these "extrasolar
planets," as they're called.
Manned Space
International Space Station Status
Report
(20 October 2006) The three residents of the International
Space Station spent a busy week with varied science and technical tasks as they
began their second month in orbit.
NASA Announces New International Space
Station Crew
(18 October 2006) NASA and the Russian Federal Space
Agency have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to the next International
Space Station crew, known as Expedition 15.
Technology
Deployment Experiment
Result of Large Deployable Reflector Small-sized Partial Model 2
(LDREX-2)
(16 October 2006) Concerning the deployment experiment of
the Large Deployable Reflector Small-sized Partial Model 2 (LDREX-2) launched
by the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at 5:56 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2006 (Japan Standard
Time, JST,) the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the antenna
deployment by images acquired at the Malindi Station in the Republic of
Kenya.
First Photos of Japanese
LDREX-2 Antenna Deployment Released by JAXA
(16 October 2006) The
piggyback antenna demonstrator carried on Arianespace's successful October 13
mission is shown in photos taken after its deployment on Ariane 5's upper
stage.
Launch
Services
Fourth Ariane 5 Launch of 2006
(16
October 2006) On 13 October 2006, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from
Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two satellites into
geostationary transfer orbits and deploy a demonstration antenna.
Sea
Launch Prepares for Launch of XM-4
(16 October 2006) The Sea Launch
team is preparing for its fifth mission of 2006, the launch of the XM-4
satellite.
In
Orbit
Integral Systems to Provide Satellite Control
Systems for VINASAT-1 Satellite
(16 October 2006) Integral Systems,
Inc. today announced that it has been selected by Lockheed Martin Commercial
Space Systems (LMCSS) to provide primary and backup satellite control systems
for the VINASAT-1 satellite.
Launches
MetOp-A
Launch
Schedule
Reports
Satellite Launches Are Just One of the Topics
Explored Inside 'Satellite Transponders - Global Strategic Business
Report'
(18 October 2006) Research and Markets has announced the
addition of Satellite Transponders - Global Strategic Business Report to their
offering.
Products and
Services
EchoStar Rolls Out High-Speed Internet
Service
(19 October 2006) EchoStar Communications Corporation today
launched "DISH Network High-Speed Internet powered by WildBlue," a
satellite-delivered broadband Internet service.
MobiApps Announces Release of Next Generation
Orbcomm Modem
(16 October 2006) MobiApps, Inc. is pleased to
announce the introduction of the m100, the next generation, high-performance
Orbcomm satellite smart modem designed for global management and monitoring of
remote and mobile assets.
RAMTelecom
Simplifies Satellite Broadband Connections for Oil and Gas Sector with New
Auto-mount Antenna
(16 October 2006) RAMTelecom Inc., a satellite
service provider delivering flexible, scalable solutions for broadband data and
voice business communications, today introduced a new auto-mount antenna system
that simplifies the process of establishing instant satellite broadband
communications anywhere in North America.
Events
Dragon Training in China Focuses on
Atmosphere
(20 October 2006) Over 50 doctoral level Chinese
scientists from 30 institutes have gathered at the prestigious Peking
University in Beijing in the People's Republic of China to attend a six-day
advanced training course devoted to atmosphere monitoring over China using ESA
remote sensing instruments.
People
New Appointments Within Alcatel Alenia
Space
(20 October 2006) Olivier Badard is appointed Vice-President,
Sales and Marketing for Alcatel Alenia Space's telecommunications activities,
based in Cannes, France.