22 July 2007
Satcoms
Disaster Drills and
Hurricane Experience Help SkyPort Global Prepare Governments and Businesses for
Emergencies
Hughes Delivers First Fully
Integrated Network Management Portal for Hybrid Broadband Networks
Hughes' Spaceway 3 Satellite Arrives at Arianespace
Launch Facility in French Guiana
Intelsat
Selects iDirect Platform to Power Global Maritime Solution
Intelsat's Galaxy 17 Satellite Operational, Offering
Prime North American Capacity
Norsat
Announces Issuance of US Patent
Orbital
Data Net Deploys Spacenet Connexstar On-Demand Satellite Services for State of
Louisiana Mission-Critical Data Backup Network
Stratos Deploys Maritime Communications Network for
Dockendale Shipping
Wegener Receives Patent
for Streamlining Receiver Authorisation Process
Broadcast
DirecTV Spanish-Language Platform Now Offers
Programming From the Dominican Republic
Fiat and WorldSpace Sign First Ever Distribution
Agreement for Satellite Radio in Europe
RRSat Chosen by Soundtrack Channel in Order to Expand
Services to North America
Earth Observation
Ball Aerospace Will Build Operational Land Imager for
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
NASA Awards
Contract For Land-Imaging Instrument
Navigation
Boeing to Submit Proposal for Global Positioning
System III
Helicopter Flight Trials for
EGNOS
Military
Space
Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Constellation
Repositioned To Enhance Global Coverage
ViaSat Wins US$ 44.9 M Order in MIDS Tactical Network
Terminal Lot 8 Award
Astronomy
NASA and Canada Sign Agreement for Future
Co-operation
Galaxies
X-ray Satellites Discover the Biggest Collisions in
the Universe
Moon
NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey in the Arctic
Circle
Venus
Spacecraft Tandem Provide New Views Of
Venus
Earth
ESA's Earth Explorer Gravity Satellite on
Show
Mars
NASA Mars Rovers Braving
Severe Dust Storms
Saturn
Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful
Figure
Scientists Have Recently Discovered
That The Planet Saturn Is Turning 60 - Not Years, But
Moons
Extra-Solar
Planets
Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young
Star
Manned
Space
ATV Starts Journey To Kourou
Ball Aerospace Joined By Hamilton Sundstrand and
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to Pursue Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle Avionics
Instrument Unit
New NASA System Will Help
Space Station Crews Breathe Easier
Skintight Space Suit is "More Spiderman, Less John
Glenn"
Space
Tourism
Space Adventures Announces the Contract Finalisation
of Future Spaceflight Participant Seats
Launch Services
ATK Announces Team Ares Validation of Manufacturing
Processes on Common Bulkhead Demonstration Article to Reduce Risk on
Constellation Launch Vehicles
BSAT-3a and
Spaceway 3 Begin Their Checkout for Arianespace's Next Ariane 5
Mission
NASA Awards Upper Stage Engine
Contract For Ares Rockets
Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne Awarded US$ 1.2 Billion NASA Contract for J-2X Ares Rocket
Engine
Products and
Services
BAE Systems to Produce Field Programmable Gate Array
for Space Use
EMC Launches New Dedicated
DVB-S2 IP Trunking Service In Africa
Hughes
Announces General Availability of Hybrid DSL/Satellite Services in
Europe
New 12" KVH TracVision SlimLine
Satellite TV Systems Bring Unmatched Performance to RVs
New Enterprise Media Receiver From Wegener
Omnisec's Accredited Solutions for Secure Satellite
Communications
Vizada Launches New Version
SkyFile Video Mobile Editing Solution
People
Arrowhead Global Solutions Names David Cavossa Vice
President of Government Affairs
NASA
Administrator Names Ryschkewitsch As New Chief Engineer
Satcoms
Disaster Drills and
Hurricane Experience Help SkyPort Global Prepare Governments and Businesses for
Emergencies
(17 July 2007) With the successful completion of a
recent exercise in Missouri, SkyPort Global Communications has once again
demonstrated its capabilities in supporting local governments concerned about
the upcoming hurricane season and numerous potential disaster
scenarios.
Hughes Delivers First Fully
Integrated Network Management Portal for Hybrid Broadband
Networks
(16 July 2007) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a leader in the
managed network services market, today announced a breakthrough in broadband
network management-a fully integrated, enterprise- wide performance and fault
management tool for both satellite and landline (DSL, T1) broadband
technologies-the HughesNet Customer Gateway.
Hughes' Spaceway 3 Satellite Arrives at Arianespace
Launch Facility in French Guiana
(16 July 2007) Hughes Network
Systems, LLC today announced that its Spaceway 3 satellite has arrived at the
Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana where the Ariane 5 heavy
launcher will launch the satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Intelsat Selects iDirect Platform to Power Global
Maritime Solution
(16 July 2007) iDirect Technologies, a company of
VT Systems Inc, has been selected by Intelsat as the platform of choice for its
Network Broadband Global maritime service, introduced last month by Intelsat,
the leading provider of commercial satellite services.
Intelsat's Galaxy 17 Satellite Operational, Offering
Prime North American Capacity
(19 July 2007) Intelsat, Ltd., the
world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced today that
its new Galaxy 17 satellite is fully operational and providing
services.
Norsat Announces Issuance of US
Patent
(16 July 2007) Norsat International Inc., a leading provider
of intelligent satellite solutions, today announced that the company has been
granted a U.S. patent for the invention of its high-performance portable
satellite communication unit, marketed as GLOBEtrekker.
Orbital Data Net Deploys Spacenet Connexstar
On-Demand Satellite Services for State of Louisiana Mission-Critical Data
Backup Network
(16 July 2007) Spacenet Inc. announced today that its
on-demand Connexstar VSAT services have been deployed as part of an emergency
response network by the State of Louisiana.
Stratos Deploys Maritime Communications Network for
Dockendale Shipping
(17 July 2007) Stratos Global Corp., the leading
global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications
solutions, today announced it has completed deployment of its AmosConnect from
Stratos maritime satellite communications solution for 28 commercial vessels
managed by Dockendale Shipping Co., Ltd.
Wegener Receives Patent for Streamlining Receiver
Authorisation Process
(17 July 2007)Wegener Corporation, a leading
provider of equipment for television, audio and data distribution networks
world-wide, today announced it has been granted a U.S. patent for technology
used in conditional access systems for decrypting data within a satellite
broadcast system.
Broadcast
DirecTV Spanish-Language Platform Now Offers
Programming From the Dominican Republic
(17 July 2007) Continuing to
bring viewers the best Spanish-language programming available, DirecTV, Inc.,
the nation's leading satellite television service provider, is now offering
Television Dominicana as part of its DirecTV Más programming
lineup.
Fiat and WorldSpace Sign First Ever
Distribution Agreement for Satellite Radio in Europe
(18 July 2007)
Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. and WorldSpace, Inc., one of the world leaders in
satellite radio broadcasting, and its subsidiary WorldSpace Italia, signed
today a marketing agreement under which Fiat Group Automobiles will become the
first automobile manufacturer to install and distribute in Italy WorldSpace
satellite radios, and WorldSpace will offer broad-based satellite radio
services, with digital quality.
RRSat Chosen
by Soundtrack Channel in Order to Expand Services to North
America
(19 July 2007) RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd., a
rapidly growing provider of comprehensive content management and global
distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries,
announced today that the Soundtrack Channel, a cable, satellite, and IPTV
channel devoted entirely to movie music and entertainment, has chosen to expand
its contract with RRSat.
Earth
Observation
Ball Aerospace Will Build Operational Land Imager for
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
(16 July 2007) Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. has been awarded a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contract
to build the Operational Land Imager (OLI) for the eighth Landsat Data
Continuity Mission (LDCM).
NASA Awards
Contract For Land-Imaging Instrument
(16 July 2007) NASA has
selected Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to develop
the Operational Land Imager instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission
(LDCM).
Navigation
Boeing to Submit Proposal for
Global Positioning System III
(16 July 2007) The Boeing Company is
preparing a response to a U.S. Air Force Request for Proposals for the
development and production of an enhanced constellation of Global Positioning
System satellites known as GPS III.
Helicopter Flight Trials for EGNOS
(18
July 2007) Successful trials have recently been conducted at Lausanne,
Switzerland, using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
(EGNOS) to guide a helicopter as it approached and touched down at an emergency
medical service landing pad in the city.
Military Space
Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Constellation
Repositioned To Enhance Global Coverage
(16 July 2007) A combined
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an on-orbit
reconfiguration of the five-satellite Milstar constellation to maximise the
system's capabilities to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to
U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe.
ViaSat Wins US$ 44.9 M Order in MIDS Tactical Network
Terminal Lot 8 Award
(18 July 2007) ViaSat Inc. has won a delivery
order valued at approximately US$ 44.9 million for Multifunctional Information
Distribution System terminals from The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
(SPAWAR), San Diego.
Astronomy
NASA and Canada Sign Agreement for Future
Co-operation
(16 July 2007) At a ceremony held Monday at NASA
Headquarters in Washington, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and Canadian
Space Agency (CSA) President and Chief Executive Officer Laurier J. Boisvert
signed the official agreement that defines the terms of the agencies'
co-operation on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Galaxies
X-ray Satellites Discover the Biggest Collisions in
the Universe
(18 July 2007) The orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton
and Chandra have caught a pair of galaxy clusters merging into a giant
cluster.
Moon
NASA Robots Practice Moon
Survey in the Arctic Circle
(20 July 2007) Two NASA robots are
surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle.
The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential
outposts on the moon or Mars.
Venus
Spacecraft Tandem Provide New Views Of
Venus
(19 July 2007) NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment,
Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, known as Messenger, and the European
Space Agency's Venus Express recently provided the most detailed multi-point
images of the Venusian atmosphere ever seen.
Earth
ESA's Earth Explorer Gravity Satellite on
Show
(19 July 2007) GOCE, ESA's first satellite dedicated to
measuring the Earth's gravity field, has been presented to the press today in
Turin, Italy, before being shipped to ESTEC - the space agency's research and
technology centre in the Netherlands - for final testing.
Mars
NASA Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust
Storms
(20 July 2007) Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half
years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars
rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.
Saturn
Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful
Figure
(17 July 2007) Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus is
cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years.
Scientists Have Recently Discovered That The Planet
Saturn Is Turning 60 - Not Years, But Moons
(19 July 2007) "We
detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft's powerful
wide-angle camera," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from
Queen Mary, University of London.
Extra-Solar Planets
Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical
Disk Around Young Star
(19 July 2007) Astronomers using the Hubble
Space Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory have found a lopsided debris disk
around a young star known as HD 15115.
Manned Space
ATV Starts Journey To Kourou
(18 July
2007) With around 400 tonnes of spacecraft and equipment for the Automated
Transfer Vehicle on board, MN Toucan set sail for Kourou from Rotterdam harbour
yesterday afternoon at around 15:30 CEST.
Ball Aerospace Joined By Hamilton Sundstrand and
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to Pursue Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle Avionics
Instrument Unit
(19 July 2007) Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp. today announced that Hamilton Sundstrand and Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne, Inc., will be the primary suppliers to Team Ball in its pursuit of
a contract for the Avionics Instrument Unit for the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle
(CLV).
New NASA System Will Help Space
Station Crews Breathe Easier
(17 July 2007) A new oxygen generation
system tested between July 11 and 14 aboard the International Space Station
will allow the orbiting laboratory's crew size to increase in 2009.
Skintight Space Suit is "More Spiderman, Less John
Glenn"
(16 July 2007) In the 40 years that humans have been
travelling into space, the suits they wear have changed very
little.
Space
Tourism
Space Adventures Announces the Contract Finalisation
of Future Spaceflight Participant Seats
(19 July 2007) Space
Adventures, the world's leading space experiences company, announced today that
it has finalised contracts with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian
Federation (FSA) for two commercial seats aboard upcoming flights of the Soyuz
TMA spacecraft.
Launch
Services
ATK Announces Team Ares Validation of Manufacturing
Processes on Common Bulkhead Demonstration Article to Reduce Risk on
Constellation Launch Vehicles
(17 July 2007) As part of the Alliant
Techsystems-led team and its risk reduction efforts focused on the Ares I upper
stage production proposal, Lockheed Martin has completed fabrication of two
common bulkhead demonstration articles. Team Ares led by ATK includes major
subcontractors Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne,
Inc.
BSAT-3a and Spaceway 3 Begin Their
Checkout for Arianespace's Next Ariane 5 Mission
(17 July 2007) Both
payloads to be orbited on Arianespace's next heavy-lift Ariane 5 flight are now
undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in French Guiana following the arrival of
the BSAT-3a satellite for Japan's Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation
(B-SAT).
NASA Awards Upper Stage Engine
Contract For Ares Rockets
(16 July 2007) NASA has signed a US$ 1.2
billion contract with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., of Canoga Park,
Calif., for design, development, testing and evaluation of the J-2X engine that
will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Awarded US$ 1.2
Billion NASA Contract for J-2X Ares Rocket Engine
(18 July 2007)
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), a United Technologies Corp. company, was
awarded a NASA contract valued at US$ 1.2 billion to design, development and
test a J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V
launch vehicles.
Products and
Services
BAE Systems to Produce Field Programmable Gate Array
for Space Use
(16 July 2007) BAE Systems will produce and sell
radiation-hardened field-programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductors for
space use, responding to a critical customer need for the devices.
EMC Launches New Dedicated DVB-S2 IP Trunking Service
In Africa
(20 July 2007) Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is
launching a new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service for the entire African
continent.
Hughes Announces General
Availability of Hybrid DSL/Satellite Services in Europe
(17 July
2007) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the world's leading provider of broadband
satellite network solutions and services, today announced the general
availability in Europe of HughesNet Managed Network Services.
New 12" KVH TracVision SlimLine Satellite TV Systems
Bring Unmatched Performance to RVs
(19 July 2007) KVH Industries
unveiled a whole new line of high-performance, low-profile mobile satellite TV
systems today at The Rally in Redmond, OR.
New Enterprise Media Receiver From
Wegener
(20 July 2007) Wegener Corporation, a leading provider of
equipment for television, audio and data distribution networks world-wide,
announced the introduction of its Unity 550-2 Enterprise Media Receiver, the
latest innovative product in a long line of enterprise network receivers being
used by Wegener customers throughout the world.
Omnisec's Accredited Solutions for Secure Satellite
Communications
(20 July 2007) It is common knowledge that voice,
facsimile and data communication over satellite networks can easily be
intercepted.
Vizada Launches New Version
SkyFile Video Mobile Editing Solution
(18 July 2007) Vizada,
(formerly France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications) today launches a new
version of SkyFile Video, a mobile satellite software solution enabling crew on
ships and boats world-wide to edit, compress and transmit video images at low
costs.
People
Arrowhead Global
Solutions Names David Cavossa Vice President of Government
Affairs
(17 July 2007) Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc., a subsidiary
of CapRock Communications and a premier provider of integrated communication
solutions, has named David Cavossa Vice President of Government
Affairs.
NASA Administrator Names
Ryschkewitsch As New Chief Engineer
(17 July 2007) NASA
Administrator Michael Griffin has named Michael Ryschkewitsch as the agency's
chief engineer. He succeeds Christopher Scolese, who Griffin selected as NASA's
associate administrator on July 11.
