20 May 2007
Satcoms
Globalstar and SingTel Form
Alliance to Expand Coverage and Distribute Satellite Products and Services in
Southeast Asia
Globalstar Extends Reseller
Agreement with GE's Asset Intelligence Unit; GE Expands Its VeriWise Offering
to Europe
Improving Security Through
Satellite Telecommunications
Leading Russian
Service Provider Chooses Shiron's InterSKY for Deployment of Multiservice
Satellite Networks Across Russia
Marshall
Communications Implements New Internal Revenue Service (IRS) IVT Broadcast
System
Orbcomm Announces Agreement with
Major Wireless Carrier
Space
Systems/Loral-Designed Satellites for Globalstar Mobile Voice and Data Services
to be Launched
Stratos Adapts Speakerbus
Netted Voice Products for Use Via Inmarsat Mobile Satellite Systems
Uruguay Floods: TSF Deploys from Americas
Base
Broadcast
Eutelsat Opens New Neighbourhood at 9 Degrees East
With Eurobird 9 Satellite (Formerly Hot Bird 2)
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting Connects Central And
Eastern Europe To Its Fibre Network
Earth Observation
General Dynamics Awarded Contract for NASA's Landsat
Data Continuity Mission Study
Huge Waves
That Hit Reunion Island Tracked From Space
MetOp-A Takes Up Service
NASA Awards Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Accommodation Study
Military
Space
Eagle Broadband Ships SatMAX Alpha System for a
Classified US Government Program
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find Ring Of Dark Matter With Hubble Space
Telescope
Hubble Sees Dark Matter Ring In A
Galaxy Cluster
Johns Hopkins Team Finds Ring
Of Dark Matter
Black
Holes
New
Technique for 'Weighing' Black Holes
Earth
Cluster Makes A Shocking Discovery
Naval Academy-Built Satellite to Carry NASA
Experiments
Saturn
Frictional Heating Explains Plumes on
Enceladus
Manned
Space
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-25
International Space Station Status
Report #26
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-27
NASA's Shuttle
Atlantis Rolls Back Out To Launch Pad
Space Tourism
Leading Medical Institutes to Develop
Collaborative Space Medicine Program
Launch Services
MSV, ILS Contract to Launch Next-Generation
Satellite
MSV, Sea Launch Contract To Launch
Next-Generation Satellite
Launches
NigComSat-1
Launch
Schedule
Products and
Services
Aldec Delivers Prototyping Solution for Actel RTAX-S
Space FPGA Designs
Events
Conference Highlights Space Safety as a Global
Concern
International Co-operation Boosts
EarthCARE
Mobile Satellite Leaders to Meet at
MSUA-4 International Conference and Exhibition
People
iDirect Appoints New Independent Director And
Announces Other Management Changes
Satcoms
Globalstar and SingTel
Form Alliance to Expand Coverage and Distribute Satellite Products and Services
in Southeast Asia
(15 May 2007) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider
of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, government, and
individuals, announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with
Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading communications
group.
Globalstar Extends Reseller Agreement
with GE's Asset Intelligence Unit; GE Expands Its VeriWise Offering to
Europe
(15 May 2007) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile
satellite voice and data services to businesses and individuals, today
announced that GE's Asset Intelligence division, a leading provider of
intelligence-based mobile asset management solutions for the transportation
industry has extended its Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with Globalstar
to 2010.
Improving Security Through Satellite
Telecommunications
(17 May 2007) Two companies are implementing an
ESA-supported project to introduce an innovative solution for alarm monitoring
and video surveillance via satellite to meet the increasing demand for security
systems from the government and corporate market.
Leading Russian Service Provider Chooses Shiron's
InterSKY for Deployment of Multiservice Satellite Networks Across
Russia
(14 May 2007) Shiron's certified distributor and support
center in Russia, JSC CEDICOM, has announced the signing of a contract with
Elvis-Telecom Company for delivery of InterSKY DVB-S2 broadband satellite
solution.
Marshall Communications Implements
New Internal Revenue Service (IRS) IVT Broadcast System
(18 May
2007) Marshall Communications Corporation announces the implementation of a new
state-of-the-art Interactive Video Teletraining (IVT) broadcast system for the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Orbcomm
Announces Agreement with Major Wireless Carrier
(16 May 2007)
Orbcomm, announced today that it would begin offering terrestrial wireless
services to complement its existing satellite-based wireless services.
Space Systems/Loral-Designed Satellites for Globalstar
Mobile Voice and Data Services to be Launched
(14 May 2007) Space
Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the
world's leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced
that four SS/L designed satellites built for Globalstar, Inc. to provide mobile
satellite voice and data services are scheduled to be launched later this month
on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Stratos Adapts Speakerbus Netted Voice Products for
Use Via Inmarsat Mobile Satellite Systems
(15 May 2007) Stratos
Global Corp., the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site
remote communications solutions, today announced it has signed an exclusive
distribution and product-development agreement with Speakerbus.
Uruguay Floods: TSF Deploys from Americas
Base
(14 May 2007) A crew of specialists in emergency
telecommunications took off on Saturday from Télécoms Sans
Frontières' Americas base situated in Managua, Nicaragua to strengthen
the co-ordination of relief teams following heavy floods which are affecting 9
of the 19 provinces of Uruguay.
Broadcast
Eutelsat Opens New Neighbourhood at 9 Degrees East
With Eurobird 9 Satellite (Formerly Hot Bird 2)
(15 May 2007)
Eutelsat Communications announces that its Hot Bird 2 satellite has been
redeployed to 9 degrees East.
Telenor
Satellite Broadcasting Connects Central And Eastern Europe To Its Fibre
Network
(18 May 2007) Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, announced
today the expansion of its Multi-Service Network (MSNW), into three more major
cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
Earth Observation
General Dynamics Awarded Contract
for NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission Study
(15 May 2007)
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General
Dynamics, was awarded a Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft
Accommodation study contract by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Huge Waves That Hit Reunion Island Tracked From
Space
(16 May 2007) The origin and movement of waves reaching up to
11 metres that devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on
Saturday evening have been detected with ESA's Envisat satellite.
MetOp-A
Takes Up Service
(16 May 2007) Eumetsat has just reported that
Europe entered a new era of meteorology and climatology when MetOp-A, Europe's
first polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, was on 15 May 2007 officially
declared operational after only six months of commissioning.
NASA Awards Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Accommodation Study
(14 May 2007) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's
Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) awarded delivery orders to four
contractors for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft
Accommodation Study on April 30.
Military Space
Eagle Broadband Ships SatMAX Alpha System for a
Classified US Government Program
(17 May 2007) Eagle Broadband,
Inc., a leading national provider of IPTV products and services, today
announced that the company has shipped another SatMAX Alpha Emergency
Communication System for use in a classified U.S. Government
program.
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find Ring Of Dark Matter With Hubble Space
Telescope
(15 May 2007) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago
during a titanic collision between two galaxy clusters.
Hubble Sees Dark Matter Ring In A Galaxy
Cluster
(15 May 2007) A team of astronomers used the Hubble Space
Telescope to find the best evidence yet for the existence of dark matter,
present in the form of a ghostly ring in a galaxy cluster.
Johns Hopkins Team Finds Ring Of Dark
Matter
(15 May 2007) Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of
astronomers has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago
during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy
clusters.
Black
Holes
New Technique for 'Weighing' Black
Holes
(16 May 2007) ESA's XMM-Newton has helped to find evidence for
the existence of controversial Intermediate Mass Black Holes. Scientists used a
new, recently proven method for determining the mass of black
holes.
Earth
Cluster Makes A Shocking
Discovery
(14 May 2007) ESA's Cluster was in the right place and
time to make a shocking discovery. The four spacecraft encountered a shock wave
that kept breaking and reforming - predicted only in theory.
Naval Academy-Built Satellite to Carry NASA
Experiments
(15 May 2007) A partnership between NASA and the U.S.
Naval Academy is offering students real-world experience.
Saturn
Frictional Heating Explains Plumes on
Enceladus
(16 May 2007) Rubbing your hands together on a cold day
generates a bit of heat, and the same process of frictional heating may be what
powers the geysers jetting out from the surface of Saturn's moon
Enceladus.
Manned
Space
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-25
(11 May 2007) A new cargo freighter launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 10:25
p.m. CDT Friday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies
and equipment aboard.
International Space
Station Status Report #26
(15 May 2007) A spacecraft automatically
docked to the International Space Station early Tuesday, delivering 2.5 tons of
food, fuel and supplies for the residents on board.
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-27
(18 May 2007) This week, the Expedition 15 crew unpacked new
supplies and began preparing for the arrival of the next visiting spacecraft
and two upcoming spacewalks at the International Space Station.
NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Back Out To Launch
Pad
(15 May 2007) Space Shuttle Atlantis is back out at its launch
pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Teams are preparing Atlantis for its
mission, STS-117, to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for
June 8.
Space
Tourism
Leading Medical Institutes to Develop Collaborative
Space Medicine Program
(14 May 2007) A comprehensive space medicine
resource for the entire civilian spaceflight industry is the focus of a
memorandum of understanding that has been signed between Mayo Clinic in
Arizona, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Wyle
Laboratories.
Launch
Services
MSV, ILS Contract to Launch Next-Generation
Satellite
(15 May 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures LP and joint
venture partner Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) announced today that MSV has
contracted with ILS International Launch Services, Inc. for the launch in 2009
of one of two high-powered, next-generation satellites, designed to provide
seamless, transparent and ubiquitous broadband wireless coverage of North and
Central America to consumer electronic devices.
MSV, Sea Launch Contract To Launch Next-Generation
Satellite
(15 May 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures LP and joint
venture partner Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) announced today that MSV has
contracted with Sea Launch Company, LLC, for the launch in 2010 of one of two
high-powered, next-generation satellites, designed to provide seamless,
transparent and ubiquitous broadband wireless coverage of North and Central
America to consumer electronic devices.
Launches
NigComSat-1
Launch
Schedule
Products and
Services
Aldec Delivers Prototyping Solution for Actel RTAX-S
Space FPGA Designs
(14 May 2007) Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in
mixed-language simulation and advanced design tools for ASIC and FPGA devices,
today announced the availability of the RTAX-S Prototyping Board for
radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGAs from Actel Corporation.
Events
Conference Highlights Space Safety as a Global
Concern
(14 May 2007) This week, ESA is cosponsoring an
international conference on environmental, human and technical space safety,
including related legal and regulatory issues.
International Co-operation Boosts
EarthCARE
(18 May 2007) With the design consolidation phase soon to
start for ESA's EarthCARE mission, scientists and engineers from around the
world recently met to discuss preparations for a mission that is being
implemented with the co-operation of Japanese partners to address the need for
a better understanding of how the interactions between clouds, aerosols and
solar radiation regulate climate.
Mobile
Satellite Leaders to Meet at MSUA-4 International Conference and
Exhibition
(14 May 2007) Leaders of the mobile satellite world will
be meeting at the Fourth Mobile Satellite Users Association International
Conference and Exhibition, May 21-23, in Baltimore, Maryland,
USA.
People
iDirect Appoints New
Independent Director And Announces Other Management Changes
(17 May
2007) Vision Technologies Systems, Inc. (VTS) today announced the appointment
of Mr Yoel Gat as an independent director to the Board of its subsidiary,
iDirect Inc.
