22 April 2007
Satcoms
GlobeCast Uses Intelsat
Capacity to Transmit Cricket World Cup 2007 to Global Viewers
Hughes Signs Contract with TerreStar to
Develop, Manufacture and Install Turnkey Satellite Base Station
Subsystem
Intelsat Assists UK Digital
Switch Over With Distribution Services to Arqiva
New Patent Covers Push-to-Send Functionality in
Satellite Communication Systems
Phoenicia Group Rolls Out BGAN Satellite
Internet Technology in Libya
Stratos
Reaches Milestone of 3,000 BGAN Activations Worldwide
Telstra Orders U$ 3.5 Million in Iridium-Based
Satellite Systems from Beam Communications
The SpaceConnection Taps Intelsat for Global
Occasional Use Capacity
Broadcast
Premiere Selects
Entavio
Earth
Observation
Scientists and Polar Explorers Brave the
Elements in Support of Cryosat-2
Navigation
Lockheed Martin Receives U$ 6 Million Contract
to Add Additional GPS Signal to Modernised Satellite
Safer Air Traffic with EGNOS
Switzerland Upgrades Its Nationwide Positioning
Network With Trimble GNSS Infrastructure Technology
Science
"The Future Starts Today"- One Step Closer To
Shaping 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025'
Stars
Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger
Zone
Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest
Mass White Dwarf
Radio Active Brown
Dwarfs Are A New Class of Pulsar
Asteroids
PSI Scientists Find Migrating Regolith on Tiny
Asteroid Itokawa
Manned
Space
ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt and Whitney
Rocketdyne Present Proposal for Ares I Upper Stage
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-21
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-22
NASA Buys Abort
Test Boosters for Orion Flight Tests
NASA Completes Two Important Reviews for
Upcoming Hubble Mission
NASA Modifies
Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Contract
NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch
Dates
Rocketplane Kistler and Japan
Manned Space Systems Corp Sign MOU for Commercial Launch Support of ISS JEM
Utilisation
Teledyne Awarded U$ 5
Million Space Hardware Contract
Space Tourism
Space Adventures' Client,
Charles Simonyi, Returned to Earth After Completing Longest Duration Private
Spaceflight
Technology
AeroAstro-Built STPSat-1 Satellite Operating
Successfully On-Orbit
Boeing Orbital
Express Conducts First Autonomous Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Fluid and Component
Transfer
Boeing Pico-Satellite
Mission to Advance Miniature Satellite Technology
New Generation of Space Tether Scheduled for
Launch 17 April 2007
Shield for the
Starship Enterprise: A Reality?
Launch Services
Astra 1L is Integrated on Ariane 5's
Dual-Payload Dispenser System
Globalstar Announces May 21st Satellite Launch
Date
Launches
AeroCube 2, CAPE-1, CSTB-1, EgyptSat 1,
Libertad 1, MAST, PolySat 3, PolySat 4, SaudiComsat 3, SaudiComsat 4,
SaudiComsat 5, SaudiComsat 6, SaudiComsat 7, SaudiSat 3
Launch
Schedule
Business
BT to Acquire Comsat
International
Products and
Services
Advantech Unveils Next Generation Outdoor
Satellite Acquisition Controller at NAB 2007
Cerona Launches SkyDSR at National Association
of Broadcasters in Las Vegas
Norsat
Launches Family of Very Low Noise Amplifiers
Norsat Unveils Next Generation of Ultra Portable
SNG Terminals
X-Digital Systems
Innovates Radio Broadcast Business Models With the Launch of the XDS-PRO4
Satellite Receiver
People
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints Larry D.
Haughey Group Vice President, Government Sector
Satcoms
GlobeCast Uses
Intelsat Capacity to Transmit Cricket World Cup 2007 to Global
Viewers
(16 April 2007) Intelsat today announced that GlobeCast, a
global content management and broadcast distribution company, selected
Intelsat's IS-9 and IS-904 satellites for contribution and distribution of the
Cricket World Cup 2007, including all 51 matches.
Hughes Signs Contract with TerreStar to
Develop, Manufacture and Install Turnkey Satellite Base Station
Subsystem
(18 April 2007) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global
leader in broadband satellite network solutions and services, today announced
the signing of a contract with TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority
owned subsidiary of Motient Corporation (MNCP), under which it will design,
develop, and manufacture a turnkey satellite base station subsystem (S-BSS) and
satellite air interface protocol.
Intelsat Assists UK Digital Switch Over With
Distribution Services to Arqiva
(17 April 2007) Intelsat today
announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract with Arqiva for satellite
capacity to carry digital programming for the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) following its digital switch over.
New Patent Covers Push-to-Send Functionality in
Satellite Communication Systems
(17 April 2007) Mobile Satellite
Ventures (MSV) announced today that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No.
7,203,490 (the patent) by the United States Patent and Trademark
Office.
Phoenicia Group Rolls Out BGAN
Satellite Internet Technology in Libya
(18 April 2007) Phoenicia
Group Libya LLC, the leading US-Libyan diversified business and consultancy
group, today announced plans to offer BGAN satellite Internet solutions to
corporate and government clients across Libya, marking the deployment as the
first time the technology will be used in the country.
Stratos Reaches Milestone of 3,000 BGAN
Activations Worldwide
(17 April 2007) Stratos Global Corp., the
leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications
solutions, today announced it has reached the milestone of its 3,000th BGAN
activation world-wide.
Telstra Orders
U$ 3.5 Million in Iridium-Based Satellite Systems from Beam
Communications
(17 April 2007) Iridium Satellite announces that Beam
Communications Pty Ltd, an Iridium value-added manufacturer, has received a
U.S. U$ 3.5 million (Inc GST) order from Telstra Corporation for Iridium-based
satellite communications systems. Beam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tele-IP
Limited.
The SpaceConnection Taps
Intelsat for Global Occasional Use Capacity
(16 April 2007) Intelsat
today announced that The SpaceConnection, Inc. signed a definitive agreement
for global Occasional Use (OU) space segment capacity.
Broadcast
Premiere Selects Entavio
(19 April
2007) SES Astra, an SES company, announced today that pay-TV broadcaster
Premiere has signed an agreement to use SES Astra's digital satellite platform
entavio in Germany.
Earth
Observation
Scientists and Polar Explorers Brave the
Elements in Support of Cryosat-2
(19 April 2007) It is perhaps an
unlikely combination - an international team of scientists stationed in
Svalbard, Norway and two polar explorers crossing the North Pole on
foot.
Navigation
Lockheed Martin Receives U$
6 Million Contract to Add Additional GPS Signal to Modernised
Satellite
(19 April 2007) The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed
Martin a U$ 6 million contract to develop and integrate a demonstration payload
that will temporarily transmit a third civil signal on a modernised Global
Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite.
Safer Air Traffic with EGNOS
(20
April 2007) Vertical guidance by means of signals from the sky: this is what
EGNOS, the first European satellite navigation service, will offer pilots
during approach and landing.
Switzerland Upgrades Its Nationwide Positioning
Network With Trimble GNSS Infrastructure Technology
(17 April 2007)
Trimble announced today it has supplied 31 Trimble NetR5 GNSS reference
stations and Trimble Zephyr Geodetic 2 antennas to Switzerland's Federal Office
for Topography (swisstopo) to upgrade its nation-wide positioning network with
Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) capabilities.
Science
"The Future Starts Today"-
One Step Closer To Shaping 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025'
(17 April 2007)
Enthusiasm and a large number of responses from the European scientific
community marked the first step in defining ESA's scientific programme for the
period 2015-2025.
Stars
Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger
Zone
(18 April 2007) Astronomers have laid down the cosmic
equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones
where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted
away.
Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest
Mass White Dwarf
(18 April 2007) Astronomers have found the lowest
mass white dwarf known in our galaxy: a Saturn-sized ball of helium containing
only about one-fifth the mass of the Sun.
Radio Active Brown Dwarfs Are A New Class of
Pulsar
(18 April 2007) A study of brown dwarfs has revealed that
these "failed stars" can possess powerful magnetic fields and emit lighthouse
beams of radio waves thousands of times brighter than any detected from the
Sun.
Asteroids
PSI Scientists Find
Migrating Regolith on Tiny Asteroid Itokawa
(19 April 2007)
Unprecedentedly high-resolution images from the Hayabusa spacecraft, the first
Japanese asteroid mission, show unexpected evidence of the migration of gravels
covering the surface of asteroid Itokawa.
Manned Space
ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt and Whitney
Rocketdyne Present Proposal for Ares I Upper Stage
(17 April 2007)
Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne today
presented to NASA an oral summary of their proposal for the Ares I Upper
Stage.
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-21
(20 April 2007) The crew members aboard the
International Space Station spent this week finalising handover operations,
conducting experiments and preparing for the departure of the Expedition 14
crew.
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-22
(21 April 2007) The 14th crew of the
International Space Station, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight
Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, along with spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi
landed their Soyuz spacecraft in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 7:31 a.m CDT
Saturday.
NASA Buys Abort Test Boosters
for Orion Flight Tests
(16 April 2007) NASA has entered into an
agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support abort flight test requirements for
the Orion Project. The Air Force has contracted with Orbital Sciences Corp. of
Chandler, Ariz., to provide launch services for the flight tests.
NASA
Completes Two Important Reviews for Upcoming Hubble Mission
(20
April 2007) NASA managers this week completed two key program reviews that
demonstrated the space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope
is progressing well.
NASA Modifies
Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Contract
(20 April 2007) NASA has
modified its contract with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colo., to
design, test and build the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch
Dates
(15 April 2007) During a meeting Monday at NASA's Johnson
Space Center, agency officials revised the target launch dates for space
shuttle flights during the next 12 months. The space shuttle and International
Space Station programs agreed to the changes during a meeting to evaluate
options following the STS-117 mission's delay, which was caused by hail damage
to the external fuel tank.
Rocketplane
Kistler and Japan Manned Space Systems Corp Sign MOU for Commercial Launch
Support of ISS JEM Utilisation
(19 April 2007) Rocketplane Kistler,
Inc. (RpK) and Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS) announced today
that the companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide
commercial launch service support to Japanese users to the International Space
Station (ISS).
Teledyne Awarded U$ 5
Million Space Hardware Contract
(16 April 2007) Teledyne
Technologies Incorporated today announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown
Engineering, Inc., has been awarded a U$ 5 million contract by the Cargo
Mission Prime Contractor, Lockheed Martin, to manufacture Flight Releasable
Attachment Mechanism (FRAM) carriers that are used to release payloads from the
Space Shuttle Cargo Bay.
Space
Tourism
Space Adventures' Client, Charles Simonyi,
Returned to Earth After Completing Longest Duration Private
Spaceflight
(21 April 2007) Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's
leading space experiences company, announced today that Charles Simonyi, Ph.D.,
successfully landed in the Kazakhstan steppes after a 14-day visit to the
International Space Station (ISS).
Technology
AeroAstro-Built STPSat-1
Satellite Operating Successfully On-Orbit
(17 April 2007) AeroAstro
today announced that STPSat-1 successfully completed Normal Operations
Readiness Review (NORR), conducted on 28 March at the Space Development and
Test Wing (SDTW) at Kirtland AFB, NM.
Boeing Orbital Express Conducts First
Autonomous Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Fluid and Component Transfer
(17
April 2007) In its first on-orbit demonstration 300 miles above the Earth,
Boeing's Orbital Express system autonomously transferred propellant fuel and a
battery from one spacecraft to another, marking industry firsts for the
revolutionary system.
Boeing
Pico-Satellite Mission to Advance Miniature Satellite Technology
(19
April 2007) A pico-satellite developed by Boeing to evaluate miniature
spacecraft technologies was successfully launched to orbit on April 17 by an
ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
New Generation of Space Tether Scheduled for
Launch 17 April 2007
(16 April 2007) The Tethers Unlimited, Inc.
(TUI) Multi-Application Survivable Tether (MAST) experiment will be launched
April 17th to study the dynamics of tethered spacecraft formations and
survivability of a new multi-strand tether technology in low Earth orbit
(LEO).
Shield for the Starship
Enterprise: A Reality?
(19 April 2007) In the last year space
agencies in the United States, Europe, China, Japan and India have announced
their intention to resume human exploration of the Solar system, beginning with
the Moon and perhaps ultimately moving on to Mars.
Launch Services
Astra 1L is Integrated on Ariane 5's
Dual-Payload Dispenser System
(20 April 2007) Final payload
integration for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission has begun at the Spaceport
in French Guiana, where SES Astra's Astra 1L satellite has been placed atop the
launch vehicle's SYLDA satellite deployment system.
Globalstar Announces May 21st Satellite Launch
Date
(18 April 2007) Globalstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSAT), a leading
provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses,
governments, and individuals, announced today that May 21, 2007 is the
scheduled date (California time) for the first launch of four Globalstar
first-generation ground spare satellites.
Launches
AeroCube 2, CAPE-1, CSTB-1, EgyptSat 1,
Libertad 1, MAST, PolySat 3, PolySat 4, SaudiComsat 3, SaudiComsat 4,
SaudiComsat 5, SaudiComsat 6, SaudiComsat 7, SaudiSat 3
Launch
Schedule
Business
BT to Acquire Comsat
International
(20 April 2007) BT has announced today that it has
entered into an agreement to acquire Comsat International, a leading provider
of data communication services for corporations and public sector organisations
in Latin America.
Products and
Services
Advantech Unveils Next Generation Outdoor
Satellite Acquisition Controller at NAB 2007
(17 April 2007)
Advantech today announced the launch of their new IPOINT Satellite Acquisition
Controller.
Cerona Launches SkyDSR at
National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas
(16 April 2007)
Cerona Networks Corp. is debuting the SkyDSR Digital Satellite Router, its
initial DVB-S2 product, at the National Association of Broadcasters in Las
Vegas this week.
Norsat Launches Family
of Very Low Noise Amplifiers
(16 April 2007) Norsat International
Inc. announced today that it has launched a commercial line of very Low Noise
Amplifiers (LNAs) optimised for high definition, bandwidth intensive and
mission critical applications.
Norsat
Unveils Next Generation of Ultra Portable SNG Terminals
(17 April
2007) Norsat International Inc. announced today that it has unveiled its
next-generation family of ultra-portable SNG (satellite news gathering)
terminals - the Norsat GLOBETrekker SNG Terminal - at NAB (National Association
of Broadcasters) 2007, the world's largest broadcast television
exhibition.
X-Digital Systems
Innovates Radio Broadcast Business Models With the Launch of the XDS-PRO4
Satellite Receiver
(17 April 2007) X-Digital Systems Inc. (XDS), a
leading provider of multimedia transmission systems, today announced the first
of its next-generation line of satellite receivers for commercial radio
broadcasting, the XDS-PRO4.
People
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints Larry D.
Haughey Group Vice President, Government Sector
(18 April 2007)
Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced today the appointment of Larry D.
Haughey, a twenty-year veteran of telecommunications programs with the federal
and military sectors, to Group Vice President, Government Sector.
