21 October 2007
Satcoms
Global Industry Coalition
Reports Severe Wi-Max Interference In Side-By-Side Test Conducted With
Satellite Systems
Iridium Chooses
Tesacom To Expand Extensive Growth Of Global Satellite Communications Services
In Brazil
Microspace Beams DreamWorks'
'The Heartbreak Kid' To Theatres Nation-wide
Satellite Air Time And Vizada Provide Audio &
Video Communications For The Malagasy Cup Race
Space Systems/Loral-Designed Satellites For
Globalstar Mobile Voice And Data Services To Be Launched
Uganda Flood Victims Receive Telecommunication
Links
Broadcast
BBC News Selects GigaSat To Provide A Fully Remote
Controlled Satellite System For The Baghdad Bureau
DISH Network Adds Another Channel To Industry's
Largest HD Lineup
Pakistan's First
"Kid's" Satellite Channel "WIKKID Plus" Joins AsiaSat 3S
Starz Launches New HD Movie
Networks
Earth
Observation
Campaign Imagery Furthers Sentinel
Development
DigitalGlobe Unveils First
Worldview-1 Images
GeoEye Initiates
Development Of Its Third Generation Earth-Imaging Satellite
ITT Sensors Aboard DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1
Satellite Capture First High- Resolution Images
Oracle Offers Database Customers Access To
Satellite And Aerial Imagery From DigitalGlobe
Satellites Help Ensure Efficient Use Of
Pesticides
UK Takes Over Helm Of
International Charter
Navigation
Science And Galileo - Working
Together
Tracking
Com Dev to Demonstrate Advanced Space-Based AIS
Capability
Military
Space
3rd SOPS, Boeing Take Over WGS Early-Orbit
Support
Ball Aerospace Completes CDR For
Air Force STP-SIV Program
ViaSat Wins
US$ 8.7 Million Contract To Modernise Air Force Telemetry Tracking And Control
Cryptographic Units
Science
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: And The Candidate
Missions Are...
Astrophysics
Science With Integral - Five Years
On
Astronomy
NASA Concludes Successful FUSE
Mission
Galaxies
Astronomers Get Their Hands Dirty As They Lift The
Veil On Galactic Dust
Hubble Finds
'Dorian Gray' Galaxy
Black
Holes
Heaviest Stellar Black Hole
Discovered
Sun
Double Star TC-1 Completes Its
Mission
Mercury
Critical Deep-Space Manoeuvre Targets MESSENGER
For Its First Mercury Encounter
Mars
Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian
Underground
NASA Extends Operations For
Its Long-Lived Mars Rovers
Comets
Thruster Burn Boosts Accuracy Of Rosetta's Earth
Approach
Manned
Space
NASA Gives "Go" For Space Shuttle Launch On Oct.
23
SAIC Awarded NASA Moon Mission
Facilities Contract
Thales Alenia
Space's Node 2 To Be Lofted Towards The International Space
Station
Technology
BAE Systems Radiation-Hardened Computers Aboard
WorldView-1 Satellite
Launch
Services
NASA To Open New Competition For Space
Transportation Seed Money
SpaceX
Successfully Completes NASA Critical Design Review For First Commercial
Transportation System To The International Space
Station
Launch Services -
GPS
Modernised GPS Built By Lockheed Martin Ready For
Launch From Cape Canaveral
4th
Modernised GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Launched
Successfully
United Launch Alliance
Successfully Launches GPS IIR-17 Mission For Air Force
Launches
GPS 2R-17 (M4)
Launch
Schedule
Reports
New Report Describes The Effects Of Spaceflight On
Biological Systems
Business
CapRock Communications Expands Into
Australia
Products and
Services
RT Logic Announces Availability Of New High-Rate
Digital/Analogue Recorder
Stratos Adds
AOS Inc.'s SkyPipe Network Optimisation To Enhance Performance Of BGAN From
Stratos
People
CapRock Appoints Tom Eaton To Lead Government
Services Business
Com Dev Announces
Appointment Of James Adamson To Board Of Directors
Satcoms
Global Industry
Coalition Reports Severe Wi-Max Interference In Side-By-Side Test Conducted
With Satellite Systems
(19 October 2007) Testing conducted earlier
this month has confirmed what a growing number of telecom service providers
already suspected: That Wi-Max systems cause severe interference to satellite
services when operated in an adjacent frequency band.
Iridium Chooses Tesacom To Expand Extensive Growth
Of Global Satellite Communications Services In Brazil
(19 October
2007) In its effort to continue its expansive growth in the Brazilian market,
Iridium Satellite announces a strategic partnership with Tesacom do
Brasil.
Microspace Beams DreamWorks' 'The
Heartbreak Kid' To Theatres Nation-wide
(17 October 2007) Microspace
Communications Corporation (Microspace), the leading distributor of digital
cinema via satellite, today announced the satellite distribution of DreamWorks
Pictures' "The Heartbreak Kid" to theatres nation-wide.
Satellite Air Time And Vizada Provide Audio &
Video Communications For The Malagasy Cup Race
(18 October 2007) The
general public will be able to follow footage of the five stages of the
Malagasy Cup from October 21 - 26 along the Madagascar coast, thanks to video
satellite communications provided by Satellite Air Time and Vizada (formerly
FTMSC).
Space Systems/Loral-Designed
Satellites For Globalstar Mobile Voice And Data Services To Be
Launched
(17 October 2007) Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary
of Loral Space & Communications and the world's leading commercial
satellite provider, today announced that the final four SS/L designed
satellites built for Globalstar, Inc. are scheduled to be launched October 21st
on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Uganda Flood Victims Receive Telecommunication
Links
(16 October 2007) The International Telecommunication Union
has deployed 25 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links
in the aftermath of severe floods that have affected the eastern and northern
regions of Uganda since August this year.
Broadcast
BBC News Selects GigaSat To Provide A Fully Remote
Controlled Satellite System For The Baghdad Bureau
(17 October 2007)
GigaSat, the leading supplier of specialist satellite systems to the media and
broadcast industries, announced it has been awarded and delivered a contract
for the manufacture, integration and supply of a Fully Redundant Ku-band Fixed
Satellite Earth Stations with full RC&M capability to BBC News.
DISH Network Adds Another Channel To Industry's
Largest HD Lineup
(18 October 2007) DISH Network, home of the best
sports and movies in high definition (HD) as well as the best HD DVR in the
industry, announced today the launch of its latest HD channel: NHL Network
HD.
Pakistan's First "Kid's" Satellite
Channel "WIKKID Plus" Joins AsiaSat 3S
(16 October 2007) Asia's
leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited
(AsiaSat) and Total Media Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Worldcall and
First Capital Group of Companies in Pakistan, today announced the signing of a
lease agreement for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S to distribute
WIKKID Plus, Pakistan's first indigenous children's channel, to all rebroadcast
networks across Pakistan and 50 other countries and regions under AsiaSat 3S's
C-band footprint.
Starz Launches New HD
Movie Networks
(15 October 2007) Starz Entertainment announced today
the successful launch of its new High Definition (HD) premium movie channels,
Starz Comedy HD, Starz Edge HD and Starz Kids & Family
HD.
Earth
Observation
Campaign Imagery Furthers Sentinel
Development
(17 October 2007) After more than a year of careful
analysis, the results from extensive airborne campaigns carried out in support
of ESA's Sentinel-1 and -2 missions prove extremely promising - ultimately
helping to pave the way for future Earth Observation-based services relating to
land-surface monitoring.
DigitalGlobe
Unveils First Worldview-1 Images
(15 October 2007) First Photos from
Next-Generation Satellite Capture Half-Meter Views of Houston, Yokohama, and
Addis Ababa
GeoEye Initiates Development
Of Its Third Generation Earth-Imaging Satellite
(18 October 2007)
GeoEye, Inc., a leading producer of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial
information, today announced it has contracted with ITT Corporation to begin
work on the camera for GeoEye's next satellite, GeoEye-2.
ITT Sensors Aboard DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1
Satellite Capture First High- Resolution Images
(16 October 2007)
Following the successful mid- September launch of DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1
remote sensing satellite, the company has released three initial images
captured by the advanced onboard sensor system, developed and built by ITT
Corporation's Space Systems Division.
Oracle Offers Database Customers Access To
Satellite And Aerial Imagery From DigitalGlobe
(18 October 2007)
DigitalGlobe, the provider of the world's highest-resolution imagery and
geospatial information products, today announced that Oracle and DigitalGlobe
will offer satellite imagery to Oracle Database 11g customers.
Satellites Help Ensure Efficient Use Of
Pesticides
(15 October 2007) A new service, developed in the
framework of an ESA-supported project, is using satellite images to compare
agricultural crop sites across Europe in order to ensure the more efficient use
of pesticides.
UK Takes Over Helm Of
International Charter
(17 October 2007) The British National Space
Centre supported by Disaster Monitoring Constellation International Imaging Ltd
have taken over the rotating six-month leadership of the International Charter
'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative by global space agency members
to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to rescue
authorities responding to major natural or man-made disasters anywhere in the
world.
Navigation
Science And Galileo - Working
Together
(16 October 2007) Galileo is a promising tool for the
scientific community, even though it is mainly intended for a set of practical
services such as guiding cars, supporting safe aircraft landings or helping
blind people to find their way.
Tracking
Com Dev to Demonstrate Advanced Space-Based AIS
Capability
(17 October 2007) Com Dev International Ltd, a leading
manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that the Company has
secured a space flight opportunity to demonstrate an advanced AIS data
detection capability from space.
Military Space
3rd SOPS, Boeing Take Over WGS Early-Orbit
Support
(14 October 2007) Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations
Squadron and contractors with Boeing Corporation took over early-orbit
operations on Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Vehicle 1 from a Boeing facility
in El Segundo, Calif., approximately 30 minutes after it launched from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Oct. 10.
Ball Aerospace Completes CDR For Air Force STP-SIV
Program
(17 October 2007) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
has successfully completed the Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle
(STP-SIV) Critical Design Review (CDR) for the United States Air
Force.
ViaSat Wins US$ 8.7 Million
Contract To Modernise Air Force Telemetry Tracking And Control Cryptographic
Units
(15 October 2007) ViaSat Inc. has been awarded an US$ 8.7
million contract from the U.S. Air Force Cryptographic Support Group (CPSG) for
system design and development of the next generation Telemetry, Tracking, and
Control (TT&C) cryptographic unit.
Science
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: And The Candidate
Missions Are...
(19 October 2007) The first steps of the next great
phase of European space science have been taken!
Astrophysics
Science With Integral - Five Years
On
(17 October 2007) With eyes that peer into the most energetic
phenomena in the universe, ESA's Integral has been setting records, discovering
the unexpected and helping understanding of the unknown over its first five
years.
Astronomy
NASA Concludes Successful FUSE
Mission
(17 October 2007) After an eight-year run that gave
astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA has concluded
the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission.
Galaxies
Astronomers Get Their Hands
Dirty As They Lift The Veil On Galactic Dust
(16 October 2007) There
is more to a grain of dust than meets the eye, at least for astronomers as they
attempt to probe deeper into distant galaxies.
Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy
(16
October 2007) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a galaxy that is the
equivalent of the painting of Dorian Gray, a portrait in an Oscar Wilde novel
that appears mysteriously to age.
Black Holes
Heaviest Stellar Black Hole
Discovered
(19 October 2007) Astronomers have located an
exceptionally massive black hole in orbit around a huge companion
star.
Sun
Double Star TC-1 Completes Its
Mission
(16 October 2007) TC-1, one of the two satellites of the
CNSA/ESA Double Star mission, was decommissioned on 14 October as its designed
orbit lifetime came to an end.
Mercury
Critical Deep-Space Manoeuvre Targets MESSENGER
For Its First Mercury Encounter
(18 October 2007) The MESSENGER
spacecraft delivered a critical deep-space manoeuvre on Wednesday - 155 million
miles (250 million kilometres) from Earth - successfully firing its large
bi-propellant engine to change the probe's trajectory and target it for its
first flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008.
Mars
Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian
Underground
(17 October 2007) NASA-funded researchers have traced
the flow of molten rock (magma) beneath three large Martian volcanoes by
comparing their surface features to those found on Hawaiian volcanoes.
NASA Extends Operations For Its Long-Lived Mars
Rovers
(15 October 2007) NASA is extending, for a fifth time, the
activities of the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and
Opportunity.
Comets
Thruster Burn Boosts Accuracy Of Rosetta's Earth
Approach
(19 October 2007) On 18 October at 19:06 CEST (17:06 UTC),
Rosetta's thrusters were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction
manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the comet-chasing spacecraft's approach to
Earth.
Manned
Space
NASA Gives "Go" For Space Shuttle Launch On Oct.
23
(16 October 2007) NASA senior managers Tuesday completed a
detailed review of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and selected
Oct. 23 as the official launch date.
SAIC
Awarded NASA Moon Mission Facilities Contract
(16 October 2007)
Science Applications International Corporation announced today that its
subsidiary, Benham Companies LLC, has been awarded a US$ 51.4 million
cost-plus- incentive-fee contract by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) to design, engineer and build two testing
facilities.
Thales Alenia Space's Node 2
To Be Lofted Towards The International Space Station
(18 October
2007) In a few days time, at 17:38 on Tuesday 23 October, the Esperia*
STS-120/10A Mission, will take off from the NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, in
Florida.
Technology
BAE Systems Radiation-Hardened
Computers Aboard WorldView-1 Satellite
(17 October 2007) Two BAE
Systems RAD750 radiation-hardened single-board computers are managing the
command and control functions onboard the WorldView-1 satellite, launched Sept.
18 aboard a Delta II rocket.
Launch Services
NASA To Open New Competition For Space
Transportation Seed Money
(18 October 2007) NASA announced Thursday
it will conduct a new competition for funding that remains in NASA's Commercial
Orbital Transportation Services Project, known as COTS.
SpaceX Successfully Completes NASA Critical Design
Review For First Commercial Transportation System To The International Space
Station
(17 October 2007) SpaceX has successfully completed the
Critical Design Review (CDR) for its first Falcon 9 / Dragon mission as part of
the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration
program.
Launch Services -
GPS
Modernised GPS Built By Lockheed Martin Ready For
Launch From Cape Canaveral
(15 October 2007) The fourth modernised
Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR satellite built by Lockheed Martin
for the U.S. Air Force is set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket on Oct. 17,
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
4th Modernised GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed
Martin Launched Successfully
(17 October 2007) A U.S. Air Force
modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed
and built by Lockheed Martin, was launched successfully today from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II
launch vehicle.
United Launch Alliance
Successfully Launches GPS IIR-17 Mission For Air Force
(17 October
2007) United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch
vehicle today from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 8:23 a.m., EDT carrying the Air
Force's GPS IIR-17(M) satellite.
Launches
GPS 2R-17 (M4)
Launch
Schedule
Reports
New Report Describes The Effects Of Spaceflight On
Biological Systems
(16 October 2007) Research and Markets has
announced the addition of Biology in Space and Life on Earth: Effects of
Spaceflight on Biological Systems to their offering.
Business
CapRock Communications Expands
Into Australia
(16 October 2007) CapRock Communications, a leading
global satellite communications provider, today announced it has expanded its
international presence into Perth, Australia.
Products and Services
RT Logic Announces Availability
Of New High-Rate Digital/Analogue Recorder
(15 October 2007) RT
Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., today announced the
availability of the Telemetrix 500RX High-Rate Digital/Analogue Recorder System
(T500RX).
Stratos Adds AOS Inc.'s SkyPipe
Network Optimisation To Enhance Performance Of BGAN From Stratos
(15
October 2007) Stratos Global Corp., the leading global provider of advanced
mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced it has
added AOS Inc.'s SkyPipe network optimisation technology to its Stratos
Advantage suite of value-added services - further differentiating BGAN from
Stratos above baseline BGAN services.
People
CapRock Appoints Tom Eaton To Lead Government
Services Business
(18 October 2007) CapRock Communications, a
premier global satellite communications provider, has named Tom Eaton - a
technology industry veteran - president of Arrowhead Global Solutions.
Com Dev Announces Appointment Of James Adamson To
Board Of Directors
(18 October 2007) Com Dev International Ltd., a
leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that James
C. Adamson has been appointed to its Board of Directors, as well as the Board's
Human Resources and Compensation Committee.
