28 January 2007
Satcoms
FTMSC Signs Partnership
with Télécoms Sans Frontières for Development of Emergency
Telecommunications Solutions
Globecomm
Systems Awarded Infrastructure Contract from a Major Provider of Enterprise
Services in the United States Valued at US$ 1.2 Million
Hurtigruten Group Extends Satellite Communications
Agreement with Telenor Satellite Services
Latest in Long Line of ATC Patents Issued to ATC
Technologies
Broadcast
Canada-Wide TV Service to Deliver 30-Plus Channels
of Christian and Family Programming
Multimedia Car Radio of the Future
Space Systems/Loral Wins Contract to Build Direct
Broadcast Satellite for EchoStar
Military Space
Alcatel Alenia Space Has Signed A Euro 103 Million
Contract With The Italian Ministry Of Defence To Provide SICRAL-1B
Satellite
Globecomm Systems Receives US$
13.1 Million Notice of Award from NATO for Additional Systems Supporting a
GPS-Based Force Tracking System
Harris
Corporation's Advanced EHF Navy Multiband Terminal Prototype First to
Communicate with Milstar During Simulated High-Sea Conditions
NGC Integrates All Phased Array Antennas on First
Advanced EHF Flight Payload
Astronomy
COROT Sees First Light!
Sun
Twin APL-Built Spacecraft Swing Past Moon,
Preparing For 3-D Solar Studies
Mars
It Just Carries On Working: The German HRSC Onboard
Mars Express Now In Its Third Year
Saturn
The Jet Stream Of Titan
Unexpected Cooling Effect in Saturn's Atmosphere
Found
Asteroids
Lutetia Asteroid in Rosetta's
Spotlight
Manned
Space
Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint
Statement
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-04
Personal Digital
Assistants In Space
Significant Milestone
for Columbus Flight Readiness
Technology
Countries Share Good Times Using GPS and The
Internet
Exploiting Space With Low-Cost
Satellites
India's SRE-1 Space Capsule
Successfully Recovered
NASA Creates
Microscopic Technology for Webb Space Telescope
Outstanding In-Orbit Performance of Terma Star
Tracker on Tacsat-2
Launch
Services
Sea Launch Begins Countdown for NSS-8
Launch
Business
Galileo: European GNSS Supervisory Authority Takes
Over Activities From Galileo Joint Undertaking
People
Alan Ladwig Joins Whitney, Bradley & Brown,
Inc. to Lead Space Consultancy
Three
scientists selected for space research postdoctoral fellowships at National
Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI)
Satcoms
FTMSC Signs
Partnership with Télécoms Sans Frontières for Development
of Emergency Telecommunications Solutions
(23 January 2007) France
Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC) and Télécoms Sans
Frontières (TSF) have signed a partnership for the development of
emergency mobile satellite communications solutions.
Globecomm Systems Awarded Infrastructure Contract
from a Major Provider of Enterprise Services in the United States Valued at US$
1.2 Million
(26 January 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global
provider of end-to-end value-added satellite-based communications solutions,
announced today that the company has been awarded a satellite infrastructure
contract from a major provider of enterprise services in the United States
valued at US$ 1.2 million.
Hurtigruten
Group Extends Satellite Communications Agreement with Telenor Satellite
Services
(23 January 2007) Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary
of Telenor of Norway, announced today it has signed a three-year extension with
the Hurtigruten Group for maritime broadband communications on board
Hurtigruten's fleet of cruise and transport vessels.
Latest in Long Line of ATC Patents Issued to ATC
Technologies
(22 January 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV)
announced today that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,155,340 (the '340
Patent) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Broadcast
Canada-Wide TV Service to
Deliver 30-Plus Channels of Christian and Family Programming
(22
January 2007) Sky Angel, the leading U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
provider of Christian TV and radio channels plus family programming, and ShifTV
Inc. of Toronto, Canada, a pioneer in providing Broadband TV (or IPTV, Internet
Protocol Television) which can be watched on any television via a set-top box,
have launched the Sky Angel multi-channel television service throughout
Canada.
Multimedia Car Radio of the
Future
(17 January 2007) Crackling radio stations, signal loss in
tunnels and difficulties tuning to the correct frequency - the conventional car
radio has had its day. ESA and its partners are developing the multimedia car
radio of the future.
Space Systems/Loral
Wins Contract to Build Direct Broadcast Satellite for EchoStar
(24
January 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 it has been awarded a contract to manufacture
a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS) for EchoStar Orbital Corporation II, a
subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corporation.
Military Space
Alcatel Alenia Space Has Signed A Euro 103 Million
Contract With The Italian Ministry Of Defence To Provide SICRAL-1B
Satellite
(23 January 2007) Alcatel Alenia Space announced that it
has signed a Euro 103 million contract with the Italian Ministry of Defence to
provide the telecommunication satellite SICRAL-1B.
Globecomm Systems Receives US$ 13.1 Million Notice
of Award from NATO for Additional Systems Supporting a GPS-Based Force Tracking
System
(23 January 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider
of end-to-end value-added satellite-based communications solutions, announced
today that the company has received a US$ 13.1 million notice of award from
NATO to provide additional systems in support of a multi-national global
positioning satellite-based (GPS) friendly force tracking system
(FTS).
Harris Corporation's Advanced EHF
Navy Multiband Terminal Prototype First to Communicate with Milstar During
Simulated High-Sea Conditions
(22 January 2007) Harris Corporation,
an international communications and information technology company, has become
the first company to complete a point-to-point Milstar satellite call under
full-motion dynamics that simulate high-sea shipboard conditions using an
Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype
system.
NGC Integrates All Phased Array
Antennas on First Advanced EHF Flight Payload
(23 January 2007) The
uplink and downlink phased array antennas developed by Northrop Grumman
Corporation for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military
satellite communications payload have been successfully integrated onto the
first flight structure, and their performance has been verified alongside other
essential payload components.
Astronomy
COROT Sees First Light!
(24 January
2007) In the night between 17 and 18 January 2007, the protective cover of the
COROT telescope has been successfully opened, and COROT has seen for the first
time light coming from stars.
Sun
Twin APL-Built Spacecraft Swing Past Moon,
Preparing For 3-D Solar Studies
(23 January 2007) NASA's twin STEREO
(Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft, built and operated by the
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md.,
completed a series of complex manoeuvres yesterday to position the spacecraft
in their mission orbits.
Mars
It Just Carries On Working: The German HRSC Onboard
Mars Express Now In Its Third Year
(22 January 2007) Exactly three
years ago today, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the Mars
Express probe captured its first image data of our neighbouring
planet.
Saturn
The Jet Stream Of
Titan
(24 January 2007) A pair of rare celestial alignments that
occurred in November 2003 helped an international team of astronomers
investigate the far-off world of Titan. In particular, the alignments helped
validate the atmospheric model used to design the entry trajectory for ESA's
Huygens probe.
Unexpected Cooling Effect
in Saturn's Atmosphere Found
(26 January 2007) In the hunt for
interplanetary answers to how atmospheric temperatures are maintained, UCL
researchers have ruled out a long held theory.
Asteroids
Lutetia Asteroid in Rosetta's
Spotlight
(26 January 2007) Earlier this month ESA's Rosetta had a
first look at asteroid 21-Lutetia, one of the targets of its long
mission.
Manned
Space
Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint
Statement
(23 January 2007) The heads of the International Space
Station partners, space agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the
United States, met at European Space Agency Headquarters in Paris, France, on
January 23, 2007, to review ISS co-operation.
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-04
(26 January 2007) This week, the crew aboard the
International Space Station prepared for an unprecedented series of
spacewalks.
Personal Digital Assistants
In Space
(26 January 2007) Can tiny and ubiquitous devices like
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) be of use for space applications? The answer
is a definite yes.
Significant Milestone
for Columbus Flight Readiness
(22 January 2007) In December 2006,
experts from ESA and partner organisations met to review Columbus launch
preparations. The successful review was a significant milestone for the launch
of the Agency's science module, planned for later this
year.
Technology
Countries Share Good Times Using
GPS and The Internet
(22 January 2007) International time
co-ordination is improving throughout the Americas thanks to a low-cost system
relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and the Internet, which
enables much faster time comparisons and gives small countries the opportunity
to evaluate easily their measurements in relation to others and to world
standards.
Exploiting Space With Low-Cost
Satellites
(26 January 2007) At a time when European science budgets
are increasingly under pressure UK academia and industry representatives met in
London (24th January 2007) to look at opportunities for exploiting space using
low cost satellites.
India's SRE-1 Space
Capsule Successfully Recovered
(22 January 2007) The Space capsule
Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV-C7) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota on January
10, 2007 was successfully recovered today (January 22, 2007) after being
manoeuvred to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and descend over Bay of Bengal
about 140 km East of Sriharikota.
NASA
Creates Microscopic Technology for Webb Space Telescope
(24 January
2007) NASA engineers and scientists building the James Webb Space Telescope
have created a new telescope technology called "microshutters."
Outstanding In-Orbit Performance of Terma Star
Tracker on Tacsat-2
(23 January 2007) The Terma Star Tracker team
has now received the first ever in-orbit live data from the Terma HE-5AS Star
Tracker.
Launch
Services
Sea Launch Begins Countdown for NSS-8
Launch
(23 January 2007) The Sea Launch team will initiate a 72-hour
countdown at its equatorial launch site today, in preparation for the launch of
the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies on Friday, January 26
(changed from January 25).
Business
Galileo: European GNSS Supervisory Authority Takes
Over Activities From Galileo Joint Undertaking
(24 January 2007) The
European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), a new Community Agency, officially
took over responsibility from the former Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) on 1
January 2007.
People
Alan Ladwig Joins Whitney, Bradley & Brown,
Inc. to Lead Space Consultancy
(25 January 2007) Whitney, Bradley
& Brown, Inc. (WBB) announced today that Alan Ladwig is joining the company
and to lead their Space Consultancy business.
Three scientists selected for space research
postdoctoral fellowships at National Space Biomedical Research Institute
(NSBRI)
(25 January 2007) Three young investigators have been named
National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) Postdoctoral
Fellows.
