16 December 2007
Satcoms
Australia's Optus
Selects Gilat For Broadband Satellite Network Expansion
Iridium Provides International Telecommunication
Union Global Communications Services For Disaster Management
ND SatCom SkyWAN Terminals Extend Kazakh
Telemedicine Networks
Satcoms Help
Royal Navy Team Attempt Record Breaking Kayaking Adventure In
Antarctica
Broadcast
Alcatel-Lucent, 3 Italia And RAI Join Forces For
The First DVB-SH Mobile TV Trial In Italy
OpenTV And Sky Italia Extend
Partnership
S2M And Space Systems/Loral
Sign Innovative Mobile TV Satellite Contract
Earth Observation
NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud Of Uncertainty On
Climate Change
Navigation
Boeing Selected To Help Develop New U.S. Air
Force GPS Ground System
Military Space
Boeing Completes Key Space Based Space
Surveillance System Tests
Elbit
Systems' Subsidiary, Talla-Com, Awarded Multiple Contracts From U.S. Department
Of Defense To Supply UHF Satcom Power Amplifiers
Integral Systems Inc. Awarded Contract Options to
Begin Development of the Next Phase of the RAIDRS Program
Nation's Newest USAF Weather Satellite Delivered
To Launch Site
Galaxies
XMM-Newton Unveils Hidden Cosmic
Giant
Solar
System
MIT Instrument Finds Surprises At Solar System's
Edge
Solving Solar System Quandaries Is
Simple: Just Flip-Flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune
Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is
Squashed
Moon
NASA And Goodyear Awarded Funding To Develop
Non-Pneumatic Tyre For The Moon
New
NASA Mission To Reveal Moon's Internal Structure And
Evolution
Earth
NASA Satellite Reveals Unprecedented View Of
Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds
NASA
Spacecraft Make New Discoveries About Northern Lights
THEMIS Probes View Auroral Substorms, Bowshock
Explosions
Mars
International Group Plans Strategy For Mars
Sample Return Mission
Mars Express
Watches A Dust Storm Engulf Mars
Mars
Orbiter Examines 'Lace' And 'Lizard Skin' Terrain
Mars Rover Investigates Signs Of Steamy Martian
Past
Software Help Mars Rovers Find
Winter Havens
Saturn
Cassini Images Invisible Ring Around
Saturn
Planetary Scientists Close In On
Saturn's Elusive Rotation
Saturn's
Rings May Be Old Timers
Comets
NASA Sends Spacecraft On Mission To Comet Hartley
2
Manned
Space
Boeing Selected To Build Instrument Unit Avionics
For NASA's Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle
Brain Stem Cells Sensitive To Space
Radiation
Constellation Services
International And Space Systems Loral Team On NASA COTS Proposal
Lighting
Up The Lunar Night With Fuel Cells
Lockheed Martin Team Opens New Space Exploration
Development Laboratory For Orion And Constellation
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Desert
RATS
Manned Space - Shuttle
STS 122
NASA Postpones Shuttle Atlantis Launch
NASA Targets Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch On Jan.
2
Columbus Launch No Earlier Than 2
January
NASA Targets Space Shuttle
Atlantis Launch On Jan. 10
Technology
Eaglepicher Technologies Awarded Two Satellite
Programs By Orbital Sciences Corporation
Technology Transfer
Space-Tech Could Make Life Easier
For Diabetics
Launch
Services
Ad Astra Rocket Company And NASA Sign Second
Collaborative Agreement Relating To The VASIMR Engine
Arianespace To Launch Amazonas-2 For
Hispasat
ATK And XCOR Successfully
Complete Test Series For NASA's 7,500 lbf Thrust LOX/Methane Workhorse
Engine
ATK Successfully Test Fires
3,500 lbf Liquid Oxygen/Methane Rocket Engine In Vacuum
NASA Selects Prime Contractor For Ares I Rocket
Avionics
Northrop Grumman To Help Air
Force Develop, Demonstrate Technologies For Reusable Launch Vehicles
The Ariane 5 For A Record Sixth Mission Of 2007
Is Now Complete
XCOR Completes First
Tests Of New Rocket Engine
Launch Services - COSMO Skymed 2
Boeing Launches Second Italian
Earth Observation Satellite
United
Launch Alliance Successfully Launches 2nd COSMO
Satellite
Launch Services -
NRO L-24
United Launch Alliance Atlas V Successfully
Launches NRO Satellite
Launch
Services - Radarsat 2
Soyuz Moves To The Launch Pad With
Radarsat-2
Radarsat-2 Has Been
Successfully Launched
Canadian Space
Agency: Successful Launch Of Radarsat-2
Launches
Raduga 1 - 8 (Globus N18, Cosmos 2434)
COSMO Skymed 2
NRO L-24
Radarsat-2
Launch
Schedule
Reports
Increasing Demand For Video Services Ensures
Growth Of Commercial Geostationary Transponder Markets In
EMEA
Business
Kazakhstan: A Space Odyssey
Saab
Evaluating Sale Of Saab Space
SpaceDev
Attracts Institutional Investor
Spacehab
Realigns Corporation
Spacehab Signs
Mini Mass Spectrometer Licensing Agreement With Praemittias Group,
Inc.
Stratos Announces Final Regulatory
Approval For CIP Arrangement
Vislink To
Open An Office In Dubai
Products and Services
Chelton Receives FAA Level "D"
Software Certification For High Gain Antenna System
Chelton Receives FAA Satcom TSO For High Gain
Antenna System
Mobile Satellite
Ventures New Telephone Interface Enables Easier Analogue Telephone Connections
With Satellite Devices
Events
Africa Focuses On GMES
ITU Global Forum Adopts Actions To Strengthen
Response In Emergencies
UN Climate
Conference Hears How EO Can Help
People
Dan White Appointed President Of Com Dev
USA
Jennifer Manner Named Chairman Of
The Board Of The Satellite Industry Association
SES New Skies Establishes New Management
Team
Satcoms
Australia's Optus
Selects Gilat For Broadband Satellite Network Expansion
(11 December
2007) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. today announced that Optus, an Australian
leader in integrated communications is expanding its network with two
additional SkyEdge satellite hub stations and thousands of VSATs.
Iridium
Provides International Telecommunication Union Global Communications Services
For Disaster Management
(13 December 2007) As the leading global
provider of emergency communications, Iridium Satellite announces it is
contributing equipment and airtime services to the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) for its world-wide disaster management
program.
ND SatCom SkyWAN Terminals
Extend Kazakh Telemedicine Networks
(10 December 2007) ND SatCom, an
SES Astra company, recently implemented a third batch SkyWAN satellite
terminals for a telemedicine project initiated by the Kazakh Ministry of
Health.
Satcoms Help Royal Navy Team
Attempt Record Breaking Kayaking Adventure In Antarctica
(13
December 2007) Earlier this year, international satellite communications
solution provider, NSSL, sponsored a crack team of Royal Navy personnel from
HMS Endurance, the Royal Navy's Antarctic ice patrol ship, as they attempted to
set a world record by kayaking around James Ross Island, off the coast of
Antarctica.
Broadcast
Alcatel-Lucent, 3 Italia And RAI Join Forces For
The First DVB-SH Mobile TV Trial In Italy
(14 December 2007)
Alcatel-Lucent, the mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI
are launching the first trial of Mobile TV based on the DVB-SH standard in
Italy.
OpenTV And Sky Italia Extend
Partnership
(13 December 2007) OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of
solutions for the delivery of advanced television and cross-platform
interactive services, announced today that Sky Italia has entered into a
multi-year renewal of its middleware license agreement with OpenTV.
S2M And Space Systems/Loral Sign Innovative
Mobile TV Satellite Contract
(12 December 2007) S2M, a provider of
media-rich, mobile entertainment to the Middle East and North Africa, announced
today the formal contract with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world leader in
high power S-band satellites for mobile video and audio applications, for the
S2M-1 satellite - the first mobile TV satellite covering the Middle East and
North Africa.
Earth
Observation
NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud Of Uncertainty On
Climate Change
(12 December 2007) New findings from NASA's CloudSat
and other spacecraft in NASA's "A-Train" constellation of five Earth observing
satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic
sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on
clouds.
Navigation
Boeing Selected To Help
Develop New U.S. Air Force GPS Ground System
(11 December 2007) The
Boeing Company today announced that it has been selected to participate in the
development of the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) ground
system for the U.S. Air Force.
Military Space
Boeing Completes Key Space Based Space
Surveillance System Tests
(11 December 2007) The Boeing Company has
successfully completed a series of Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system
tests as part of the development of a new operational sensor for the U.S. Space
Surveillance Network.
Elbit Systems'
Subsidiary, Talla-Com, Awarded Multiple Contracts From U.S. Department Of
Defense To Supply UHF Satcom Power Amplifiers
(12 December 2007)
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that Tallahassee Communications Industries, Inc.
(Talla-Com), its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, was recently awarded multiple
contracts from U.S. Department of Defense Agencies to supply UHF SATCOM
(Satellite Communications) Power Amplifiers to the military.
Integral Systems Inc. Awarded Contract Options to
Begin Development of the Next Phase of the RAIDRS Program
(10
December 2007) Integral Systems Inc. today announced that the U.S. Air Force
has exercised contract options totalling US$29.8M for the Rapid Attack
Identification Detection Reporting System (RAIDRS) Block 10 (RB-10) program,
extending the period of performance through December 2010.
Nation's Newest USAF Weather Satellite Delivered
To Launch Site
(14 December 2007) The Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for
the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif.,
has been delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a
July 2008 launch.
Galaxies
XMM-Newton Unveils Hidden Cosmic
Giant
(14 December 2007) Astronomers working with XMM-Newton have
discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified
cluster of galaxies.
Solar
System
MIT Instrument Finds Surprises At Solar System's
Edge
(10 December 2007) The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science
instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations
about the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun's influence in
space.
Solving Solar System Quandaries
Is Simple: Just Flip-Flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune
(12
December 2007) What's the order of the planets in the solar system?
Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is
Squashed
(10 December 2007) NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed
its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the
edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas
between the stars.
Moon
NASA And Goodyear Awarded Funding To Develop
Non-Pneumatic Tyre For The Moon
(13 December 2007) Goodyear, the
innovator of run-flat tyre technology on Earth, is working with NASA Glenn
Research Center (GRC) to significantly evolve the technology and take its
capabilities to the rest of the universe.
New NASA Mission To Reveal Moon's Internal
Structure And Evolution
(11 December 2007) At a Monday meeting of
the American Geophysical Union, NASA's Associate Administrator for Science Alan
Stern announced the selection of a new mission that will peer deep inside the
moon to reveal its anatomy and history.
Earth
NASA Satellite Reveals Unprecedented View Of
Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds
(10 December 2007) NASA's AIM
satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent
polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.
NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries About
Northern Lights
(11 December 2007) A fleet of NASA spacecraft,
launched less than eight months ago, has made three important discoveries about
spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of
their power.
THEMIS Probes View Auroral
Substorms, Bowshock Explosions
(11 December 2007) Five satellites
launched last February to probe magnetic storms around the Earth will move into
prime observing position next month, but they already have produced important
new information on the interactions between the solar wind and the Earth's
magnetic field.
Mars
International Group Plans Strategy For Mars
Sample Return Mission
(10 December 2007) NASA and an international
team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars
mission to bring soil samples back to Earth.
Mars Express Watches A Dust Storm Engulf
Mars
(11 December 2007) This summer, Mars suffered a titanic dust
storm that engulfed the entire planet.
Mars Orbiter Examines 'Lace' And 'Lizard Skin'
Terrain
(11 December 2007) Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is
helping scientists learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on
Mars, as well as more familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet.
Mars Rover Investigates Signs Of Steamy Martian
Past
(10 December 2007) Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers
are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important
discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favourable spot for surviving the
next Martian winter.
Software Help Mars
Rovers Find Winter Havens
(12 December 2007) New software is helping
NASA find safe places for the Spirit rover to ride out future Martian winters -
and also plan where Spirit and its companion rover, Opportunity, will explore
in the future.
Saturn
Cassini Images Invisible Ring Around
Saturn
(12 December 2007) Scientists have gotten their best "look"
ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn's giant magnetic
field, finding that it is asymmetric and dynamic, unlike similar rings that
appear around Earth.
Planetary
Scientists Close In On Saturn's Elusive Rotation
(12 December 2007)
Somewhere deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant
speed.
Saturn's Rings May Be Old
Timers
(12 December 2007) New observations by NASA's Cassini
spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the
age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years
ago, when the solar system was still under construction.
Comets
NASA Sends Spacecraft On Mission To Comet Hartley
2
(13 December 2007) NASA has approved the retargeting of the EPOXI
mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010.
Manned Space
Boeing Selected To Build
Instrument Unit Avionics For NASA's Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle
(12
December 2007) The Boeing Company has been awarded an initial NASA contract
valued at approximately US$ 265 million to produce the Ares I crew launch
vehicle's instrument unit avionics (IUA).
Brain Stem Cells Sensitive To Space
Radiation
(12 December 2007) Measures to protect astronauts from
health risks caused by space radiation will be important during extended
missions to the moon or Mars, say researchers in a paper currently online in
Experimental Neurology.
Constellation
Services International And Space Systems Loral Team On NASA COTS
Proposal
(11 December 2007) Constellation Services International,
Inc. (CSI) is collaborating with Space Systems Loral (SS/L) to pursue a funded
Space Act Agreement with NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
(COTS) program.
Lighting Up The Lunar
Night With Fuel Cells
(12 December 2007) How do you survive in a
remote, mountainous region that has no water or wind and sometimes goes without
sunlight for weeks?
Lockheed Martin Team
Opens New Space Exploration Development Laboratory For Orion And
Constellation
(12 December 2007) Lockheed Martin announced today the
opening of its new space Exploration Development Laboratory in a ceremony
dedicating the facility to support the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) Project Orion and Constellation Program.
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Desert
RATS
(12 December 2007) Every September, after the summer rain backs
off but before the mornings get too cold, a pack of RATS descends on the desert
near Flagstaff, Ariz., to spend two weeks testing technologies that will play a
vital role in the future of space exploration.
Manned Space - Shuttle STS 122
NASA Postpones Shuttle Atlantis
Launch
(9 December 2007) NASA has delayed Sunday's launch of space
shuttle Atlantis on its STS-122 mission to the International Space
Station.
NASA Targets Space Shuttle
Atlantis Launch On Jan. 2
(9 December 2007) Space shuttle Atlantis'
STS-122 mission to the International Space Station now is targeted to launch no
earlier than Jan. 2 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Columbus Launch No Earlier Than 2
January
(9 December 2007) The launch of the European Columbus
laboratory on board Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission to the
International Space Station now is targeted to launch no earlier than 2 January
2008 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
NASA Targets Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch On
Jan. 10
(13 December 2007) NASA's Space Shuttle Program managers
have targeted Jan. 10 for the launch of shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission to
the International Space Station.
Technology
Eaglepicher Technologies
Awarded Two Satellite Programs By Orbital Sciences Corporation
(11
December 2007) EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, an EaglePicher company, today
announced it has been awarded two satellite battery programs by Orbital
Sciences Corporation (OSC).
Technology Transfer
Space-Tech Could Make Life
Easier For Diabetics
(13 December 2007) German student Nicole
Schmiedel has come up with a design for a trendy-looking wristwatch that
contains an innovative ultra-light insulin pump to help people with type 1
diabetes.
Launch
Services
Ad Astra Rocket Company And NASA Sign Second
Collaborative Agreement Relating To The VASIMR Engine
(11 December
2007) Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA have signed an Umbrella Space Act
Agreement relating to the space agency's potential interest in the VASIMRTM
engine, a new space propulsion technology currently under development by Ad
Astra.
Arianespace To Launch Amazonas-2
For Hispasat
(13 December 2007) Petra Mateos, Chairman and CEO of
Hispasat, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, signed today
the launch Service & Solutions contract for the Amazonas-2
satellite.
ATK And XCOR Successfully
Complete Test Series For NASA's 7,500 lbf Thrust LOX/Methane Workhorse
Engine
(12 December 2007) XCOR Aerospace and Alliant Techsystems
completed tests on a methane-burning rocket engine for NASA. This engine could
help return America to the Moon and allow astronauts to tap extra-terrestrial
sources of fuel. The engine work was funded by NASA's Exploration Technology
Development Program at Langley, as part of the Propulsion and Cryogenics
Advanced Development Project based at Glenn Research Center.
ATK Successfully Test Fires 3,500 lbf Liquid
Oxygen/Methane Rocket Engine In Vacuum
(12 December 2007) Alliant
Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen
(LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber.
NASA Selects Prime Contractor For Ares I Rocket
Avionics
(12 December 2007) NASA has selected The Boeing Company of
Huntsville, Ala., as the prime contractor to produce, deliver and install
avionics systems for the Ares I rocket that will launch the Orion crew
exploration vehicle into orbit.
Northrop
Grumman To Help Air Force Develop, Demonstrate Technologies For Reusable Launch
Vehicles
(10 December 2007) Northrop Grumman Corporation will help
the U.S. Air Force develop and demonstrate technologies critical to a future
"aircraft-like" reusable launch vehicle under a contract awarded Dec. 4 by the
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Dayton, Ohio.
The Ariane 5 For A Record Sixth Mission Of 2007
Is Now Complete
(11 December 2007) The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's
year-ending dual-satellite mission is now complete after the successful
integration of its Horizons-2 and Rascom 1 payloads.
XCOR Completes First Tests Of New Rocket
Engine
(12 December 2007) XCOR Aerospace Inc. announced today that
it has successfully completed its first series of tests on a new 56-pound
thrust rocket engine.
Launch
Services - COSMO Skymed 2
Boeing Launches Second Italian Earth Observation
Satellite
(8 December 2007) The Boeing Company, through its
commercial launch business, today successfully launched the second of four
Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation
(COSMO) SkyMed spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket for Thales Alenia Space
Italia.
United Launch Alliance
Successfully Launches 2nd COSMO Satellite
(8 December 2007) A United
Launch Alliance Delta II rocket successfully launched the second Italian-built
Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean Basin Observation or
COSMO-SkyMed 2 satellite at 6:31 p.m. PST, today.
Launch Services - NRO L-24
United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Successfully Launches NRO Satellite
(10 December 2007) A United
Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched a National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO) payload at 5:05 p.m., EST, today from Space Launch Complex
41.
Launch Services - Radarsat
2
Soyuz Moves To The Launch Pad With
Radarsat-2
(13 December 2007) Starsem's 20th commercial flight is
ready for lift-off from Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Canadian Radarsat-2
synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite.
Radarsat-2 Has Been Successfully
Launched
(14 December 2007) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates
Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that the
Radarsat-2 satellite has been launched into its proper orbit.
Canadian Space Agency: Successful Launch Of
Radarsat-2
(14 December 2007) Radarsat-2 lit up the night sky as it
was launched successfully into space aboard a Soyuz rocket at 19:17 local time
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Launches
Raduga 1 - 8 (Globus N18, Cosmos
2434)
COSMO Skymed
2
NRO L-24
Radarsat-2
Launch
Schedule
Reports
Increasing Demand For Video Services Ensures
Growth Of Commercial Geostationary Transponder Markets In EMEA
(10
December 2007) The explosion of video applications and the consequent need for
higher bandwidth to distribute them are driving growth in the commercial
satellite transponder market.
Business
Kazakhstan: A Space Odyssey
(12
December 2007) Since independence, Kazakhstan hes been home to the Baikonur
cosmodrome located to the east of the Aral Sea.
Saab Evaluating Sale Of Saab Space
(11
December 2007) Saab is examining if there is any interest among other companies
in acquiring Saab Space AB.
SpaceDev
Attracts Institutional Investor
(14 December 2007) SpaceDev, Inc.
announced that it has entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement and Stockholder
Agreement with Loeb Partners Corporation, a New York-based investment
firm.
Spacehab Realigns
Corporation
(10 December 2007) Spacehab, Incorporated, a leading
provider of commercial space services, today announced an initiative to align
the corporate structure and personnel toward its strategic direction of winning
the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) funded Space Act
Agreement, due to be awarded February 2008, and to process and manufacture
products in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS).
Spacehab Signs Mini Mass Spectrometer Licensing
Agreement With Praemittias Group, Inc.
(12 December 2007) Spacehab
Inc., a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced that it
has entered into an exclusive Licensing Agreement with Praemittias Group, Inc.,
an Englewood, Colorado-based U.S. defence contractor, to market and sell
Spacehab's Miniature Mass Spectrometer (MMS) technology to the United States
Department of Defense (DoD).
Stratos
Announces Final Regulatory Approval For CIP Arrangement
(10 December
2007) Stratos Global Corp. today announced that it has obtained the final
regulatory approval required to consummate the arrangement transaction with CIP
Canada Investment, Inc. (CIP).
Vislink
To Open An Office In Dubai
(11 December 2007) From 1st January 2008,
Vislink PLC, the £100 million manufacturing group for the specialist
broadcast and defence markets, is to open a sales and distribution office in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Products and Services
Chelton Receives FAA Level "D"
Software Certification For High Gain Antenna System
(10 December
2007) Cobham plc subsidiary, Chelton Inc, is pleased to announce receipt of a
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) DO-178B Level D Software certification
for its HGA-7001 High Gain Satcom antenna.
Chelton Receives FAA Satcom TSO For High Gain
Antenna System
(10 December 2007) Cobham plc subsidiary, Chelton
Inc, is pleased to announce receipt of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Technical Standard Order (TSO) C132 for its HGA-7001 High Gain Satcom
antenna.
Mobile Satellite Ventures New
Telephone Interface Enables Easier Analogue Telephone Connections With
Satellite Devices
(12 December 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures'
(MSV) announced today the roll-out of the company's new MSAT-PSTN Telephone
Interface, designed to enhance satellite calling over the MSV Network
interlinked to the Public Switched Telephone Network
(PSTN).
Events
Africa Focuses On
GMES
(11 December 2007) The 'Lisbon Declaration on GMES and Africa'
has been adopted at a meeting of organisations and governmental European and
African bodies and entities under the aegis of the Portuguese Presidency of the
Council of the European Union in Lisbon, Portugal.
ITU Global Forum Adopts Actions To Strengthen
Response In Emergencies
(13 December 2007) The Global Forum on
'Effective Use of Telecommunications/ICT for Disaster Management: Saving Lives'
closed yesterday, having launched two important initiatives, the ITU Framework
for Co-operation in Emergencies and the ITU Network of Volunteers for Emergency
Telecommunications.
UN Climate
Conference Hears How EO Can Help
(12 December 2007) The role of
Earth Observation satellites in combating climate change is being highlighted
at the United Nations climate change conference where thousands of delegates
from more than 180 countries are gathered to begin negotiations of an
international emissions-cutting agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, whose
first commitment period ends in 2012.
People
Dan White Appointed President Of Com Dev
USA
(10 December 2007) Com Dev International Ltd. today announced
that Dan White has been appointed as President of Com Dev USA.
Jennifer Manner Named Chairman Of The Board Of
The Satellite Industry Association
(13 December 2007) Mobile
Satellite Ventures (MSV) today announced that Jennifer A. Manner will serve as
Chairman of the Board for the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) for
2008.
SES New Skies Establishes New
Management Team
(10 December 2007) SES New Skies, an SES company
today announces three senior appointments which establishes its new management
team following the completion of all post acquisition integration
activities.
