29 April 2007
Satcoms
Galaxy 17 Telecommunication
Satellite Ready For Launch
Gilat Provides
Broadband Satellite Network for Nigerian Elections
Iridium Satellite Announces New North American
Pricing Plan
Merlin Satcom Applications
Awarded General Services Administration (GSA) Contract
Richardson Electronics Partners with Globalstar on
Antenna Assemblies for Satcom Devices
Thales Alenia Space to Build and Deliver Thor 6
Communications Satellite for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting
Thales Alenia Space to Build Thor 6 Communications
Satellite for Telenor
Broadcast
NTV Plus, Russia's Premier Pay-TV Platform Launches
its HDTV Offer via Eutelsat's W4 Satellite
Earth Observation
DigitalGlobe Imagery Serves as Critical Ingredient
in Conservation Programs
Satellites Play
Vital Role In Understanding The Carbon Cycle
Navigation
Boeing Demonstrates Key GPS III Features in Critical
Program Review
Boeing Marks 18th
Anniversary of GPS Block II Program
u-blox
Sees Strong Growth in US GPS Market
Military Space
General Dynamics-Built Missile Defense Agency
Satellite is Successfully Launched into Orbit
Astrophysics
Cosmologically Speaking, Diamonds May Actually Be
Forever
Scientists Discover Vast
Intergalactic Cloud of Plasma
Astronomy
Airborne Observatory Integrated by L-3
Communications Completes First Flight
First High Quality Wide Field LOFAR Image
Goodrich Sensor Delivered for NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope
Iowa State Astrophysicists
Provide the Eyes for New Gamma Ray Telescope System
NASA Completes First Checkout Flight of Airborne
Observatory
Stars
How Old are Stars? Enter Gyrochronology - a Powerful
New Method to Determine Stellar Ages
Black Holes
Black Holes May Fill The Universe With the Seeds of
Life
XMM-Newton Pinpoints Intergalactic
Polluters
Sun
NASA Spacecraft Make First 3-D Images of
Sun
Asteroids
Celestial Fender-Bender Left Asteroid to Cool
without Insulation, Find UMass Amherst Scientists
Hayabusa Starts Fully Fledged Return Trip to
Earth
Public Release of Hayabusa Data
Archives
Extra-Solar
Planets
Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in
Habitable Zone
Sub Orbital
Space
Epsori Space Systems Free Seeds Experiment to Launch
April 28th
Manned
Space
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-23
NASA to Rotate Station Astronauts
on Next Shuttle Mission
Robotic Surgeon to
Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission
Space Tourism
Out of This World Weightless Flights
By Zero Gravity Corporation Lift Off From Las Vegas
Professor Stephen Hawking Experiences the Freedom of
Weightlessness
Technology
SpaceDev's Systems Enable Successful Orbital Express
Spacecraft Servicing Demonstration
Launch Services
Galaxy 17 and Astra 1L Payloads Installed on Ariane
5
ILS, Telesat Canada Sign Contract to
Launch Nimiq 5 on Proton in 2009
NASA's
AIM Mission Soars to the Edge of Space
Orbital Set to Launch Company-Built AIM Scientific
Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket
Orbital Successfully Launches AIM Scientific
Satellite
Orbital Successfully Launches
Minotaur I Rocket Carrying US Missile Defense Agency's NFIRE
Satellite
PSLV Successfully Launches
Italian Satellite
UP Aerospace Readies
Rocket for April 28th Space Launch
Launches
AGILE, AAM
Near
Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE)
AIM
(Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere)
Launch
Schedule
Reports
Between 2002 And 2006, the Rural Satellite VSAT
Market in Middle East and Africa Experienced Exponential
Growth
Business
A Step Closer to a European Space Policy
Globecomm Systems to Acquire GlobalSat Division of
Lyman Bros
Products and
Services
Globalstar Launches Simplex Data Service and
Backoffice for Customers in Central America
Telenor Satellite Services Expands Mobile Satellite
Equipment Portfolio
Events
Envisat Symposium 2007 Kicks Off In
Switzerland
Satellites Shed Light On
Global Warming
Sofia Hosts XXXV Session of
Intersputnik Board and 5th meeting of Operations Committee
X Prize Foundation and Holloman AFB Announce
Partnership
People
Carl Ehrlich Joins SpaceWorks Engineering as
Affiliate
Mobile Satellite Ventures
Appoints Steven L. Soroka Vice President, Enterprise Operations
Satcoms
Galaxy 17
Telecommunication Satellite Ready For Launch
(26 April 2007) The
Galaxy 17 satellite, for which Thales Alenia Space is prime contractor, is
ready for launch.
Gilat Provides Broadband
Satellite Network for Nigerian Elections
(26 April 2007) Gilat
Satellite Networks Ltd. today announced that it was chosen by WIN TSS (Telecom
Security Systems) Nigeria Ltd. to provide a broadband satellite communications
network and outsourced network services for the recent national elections in
Nigeria.
Iridium Satellite Announces New
North American Pricing Plan
(25 April 2007) Iridium Satellite
announces a new North American pricing plan that offers extremely low rates for
satellite phone calls.
Merlin Satcom
Applications Awarded General Services Administration (GSA)
Contract
(27 April 2007) Merlin SatCom Applications, a Service
Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, today announced that it has been awarded
a five-year General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 Contract,
GS-35F-0402T, which will run through April 24, 2012.
Richardson Electronics Partners with Globalstar on
Antenna Assemblies for Satcom Devices
(23 April 2007) Richardson
Electronics, Ltd. announced today it has received a contract from Globalstar,
Inc., of Milpitas, CA to produce antenna assemblies for a line of satcom asset
tracking products.
Thales Alenia Space to
Build and Deliver Thor 6 Communications Satellite for Telenor Satellite
Broadcasting
(24 April 2007) Thales Alenia Space announced today
that it has signed a contract with Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS, a
subsidiary of Norway's telecommunication provider Telenor, for the construction
and delivery of a new GEO communications satellite, Thor 6.
Thales Alenia Space to Build Thor 6 Communications
Satellite for Telenor
(24 April 2007) Telenor announced today that
it has signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space for the construction and
delivery of a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications
satellite.
Broadcast
NTV Plus, Russia's Premier Pay-TV Platform Launches
its HDTV Offer via Eutelsat's W4 Satellite
(27 April 2007) NTV-Plus
announced today at a press conference in Moscow the launch of new premium HDTV
services which will be available through the W4 satellite operated by Eutelsat
Communications.
Earth
Observation
DigitalGlobe Imagery Serves as Critical Ingredient
in Conservation Programs
(26 April 2007) DigitalGlobe, provider of
the world's highest-resolution imagery and geospatial information products, was
recently recognised for their continued contribution to conservation efforts
during a recent visit by Dr. Jane Goodall to the company's
headquarters.
Satellites Play Vital Role In
Understanding The Carbon Cycle
(25 April 2007) The global carbon
cycle plays a vital role in climate change and is of intense importance to
policy makers, but significant knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of
it.
Navigation
Boeing Demonstrates Key
GPS III Features in Critical Program Review
(26 April 2007) Boeing
this month successfully completed a critical Global Positioning System (GPS)
Space Segment III System Design Review, supporting the U.S. Air Force's
requirement for a low-risk, high-confidence acquisition solution.
Boeing
Marks 18th Anniversary of GPS Block II Program
(24 April 2007)
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force marked the 18th anniversary of the activation of
the first Global Positioning System Block II satellite on April 14.
u-blox Sees Strong Growth in US GPS
Market
(24 April 2007) u-blox America Inc., the GPS receiver
technology provider, has moved to larger premises in Reston, Virginia, and has
hired new staff to match massive growth in the US GPS
market.
Military
Space
General Dynamics-Built Missile Defense Agency
Satellite is Successfully Launched into Orbit
(24 April 2007) The
Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE), built by General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, was successfully
launched into low earth orbit today from the NASA facility at Wallops Island,
Va.
Astrophysics
Cosmologically Speaking, Diamonds May Actually Be
Forever
(26 April 2007) If you've ever wondered about the ultimate
fate of the universe, Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer have some good news -
sort of.
Scientists Discover Vast
Intergalactic Cloud of Plasma
(22 April 2007) Combining the world's
largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico with a precision imaging,
seven-antenna synthesis radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical
Observatory (DRAO), a team of researchers led by Los Alamos scientist Philipp
Kronberg have discovered a new giant in the heavens, a giant in the form of a
previously undetected cloud of intergalactic plasma that stretches more than 6
million light years across.
Astronomy
Airborne Observatory Integrated by L-3
Communications Completes First Flight
(26 April 2007) L-3
Communications announced today that NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) completed its first test flight following extensive
aircraft modification and telescope integration at L-3 Integrated Systems in
Waco, Texas.
First High Quality Wide Field
LOFAR Image
(26 April 2007) Astronomers and engineers have together
produced the first high quality image with a LOFAR station.
Goodrich Sensor Delivered for NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope
(27 April 2007) Goodrich Corporation has delivered an
updated, refurbished Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensor to Goddard
Space Flight Center for final testing prior to its launch on the Hubble final
servicing mission, "SM4," scheduled to occur in 2008.
Iowa State Astrophysicists Provide the Eyes for New
Gamma Ray Telescope System
(23 April 2007) There's a "First Light
Fiesta" in the works at Mt. Hopkins near Amado, Ariz. And Iowa State University
astrophysicists will be among those enjoying the celebration of a new telescope
system and all the science it will produce.
NASA Completes First Checkout Flight of Airborne
Observatory
(26 April 2007) NASA today successfully completed the
first of several planned checkout test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory
for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft.
Stars
How Old are Stars? Enter Gyrochronology - a Powerful
New Method to Determine Stellar Ages
(24 April 2007) Gyrochronology,
a new method for accurately determining the ages of field stars based on their
rotational rates, is being announced today by Sydney Barnes, Lowell Observatory
astronomer.
Black
Holes
Black Holes May Fill The Universe With the Seeds of
Life
(22 April 2007) New research shows that black holes are not the
ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture.
XMM-Newton Pinpoints Intergalactic
Polluters
(20 April 2007) Warm gas escaping from the clutches of
enormous black holes could be the key to a form of intergalactic 'pollution'
that made life possible, according to new results from ESA's XMM-Newton space
observatory, published today.
Sun
NASA Spacecraft Make First 3-D Images of
Sun
(23 April 2007) NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations
Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have made the first three-dimensional images of
the sun.
Asteroids
Celestial Fender-Bender Left Asteroid to Cool
without Insulation, Find UMass Amherst Scientists
(24 April 2007) A
fender-bender between two celestial bodies that left a 200 mile-wide metallic
chunk to cool in space was the likely source of a group of meteorites known as
the IVA iron meteorites, suggests new research by University of Massachusetts
Amherst scientists.
Hayabusa Starts Fully
Fledged Return Trip to Earth
(25 April 2007) Since February 2007,
JAXA has been carefully preparing to start the fully fledged return trip to
Earth using the ion engine and one attitude control reaction wheels (as two of
the three wheels are unavailable due to anomalies).
Public Release of Hayabusa Data
Archives
(24 April 2007) The Hayabusa spacecraft, which was launched
in May 2003, arrived at Asteroid Itokawa in September 2005, and it made
observations of Itokawa and tried touch down in about three
months.
Extra-Solar
Planets
Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in
Habitable Zone
(25 April 2007) Astronomers have discovered the most
Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius
only 50% larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid
water.
Sub Orbital
Space
Epsori Space Systems Free Seeds Experiment to Launch
April 28th
(26 April 2007) Epsori Space Systems announced today that
its Free Seeds Experiment will be flying aboard the Up Aerospace SL-2 launch,
scheduled for Saturday, April 28th 2007.
Manned Space
International Space Station Status Report:
SS07-23
(27 April 2007) The Expedition 15 crew aboard the
International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as
the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance.
NASA to Rotate Station Astronauts on Next Shuttle
Mission
(26 April 2007) After several months working aboard the
International Space Station, NASA astronaut Suni Williams will come back to
Earth aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, targeted for launch June 8.
Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts
on NASA Mission
(23 April 2007) The surgical robot Raven, astronauts
and surgeons will spend 12 days in the Aquarius habitat. The 400-square-foot
underwater habitat is used by NASA for space simulation and
training.
Space
Tourism
Out of This World Weightless Flights By Zero Gravity
Corporation Lift Off From Las Vegas
(24 April 2007) To Sin City and
Beyond! Raising the bar yet higher in the Entertainment Capital of the World,
Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G), the first and only FAA-approved provider of
commercial weightless flights, has officially launched regular service from
Signature Air Terminal at McCarran International Airport.
Professor Stephen Hawking Experiences the Freedom of
Weightlessness
(26 April 2007) Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G),
and its sponsors, Space Florida and The Sharper Image, successfully flew
world-renowned physicist, cosmologist, and best-selling author Professor
Stephen Hawking into weightlessness today, performing eight parabolas, out of
the Kennedy Space Center today.
Technology
SpaceDev's Systems Enable
Successful Orbital Express Spacecraft Servicing Demonstration
(25
April 2007) SpaceDev, Inc., as a member of Boeing's Orbital Express team, would
like to join Boeing's announcement that the two satellites on DARPA's Orbital
Express Mission successfully separated and the first in a series of capture
tests was successfully completed.
Launch Services
Galaxy 17 and Astra 1L Payloads Installed on Ariane
5
(24 April 2007) Arianespace's second heavy-lift Ariane 5 of 2007
is now complete at Europe's Spaceport following the integration of its
dual-satellite payload for the upcoming May 3 launch.
ILS, Telesat Canada Sign Contract to Launch Nimiq 5
on Proton in 2009
(26 April 2007) International Launch Services
(ILS) will launch its sixth satellite for Telesat Canada on a Proton Breeze M
vehicle, under a contract the companies announced today.
NASA's AIM Mission Soars to the Edge of
Space
(25 April 2007) NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)
spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to the exploration of mysterious ice
clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth's polar regions, successfully
launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 1:26 p.m. PDT on Wednesday,
April 25.
Orbital Set to Launch
Company-Built AIM Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus
Rocket
(24 April 2007) Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced
that it is in final preparations to launch the Aeronomy of Ice in the
Mesosphere (AIM) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Orbital Successfully Launches AIM Scientific
Satellite
(26 April 2007) Orbital Sciences Corporation announced
today that its Pegasus space launch vehicle successfully launched the Aeronomy
of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) scientific satellite for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Orbital Successfully Launches Minotaur I Rocket
Carrying US Missile Defense Agency's NFIRE Satellite
(24 April 2007)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that its Minotaur I rocket
successfully launched the Near Field InfraRed Experiment (NFIRE) spacecraft for
the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Air Force.
PSLV Successfully Launches Italian
Satellite
(23 April 2007) In its eleventh flight, conducted from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, this afternoon, ISRO's
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C8, successfully launched the 352 kg
Italian astronomical satellite, AGILE, into a 550 km circular orbit, inclined
at an angle of 2.5 deg to the equator.
UP
Aerospace Readies Rocket for April 28th Space Launch
(24 April 2007)
UP Aerospace, Inc. a Connecticut-based company and world leader in affordable
space access, is geared up for a multi-faceted space launch on April
28th.
Launches
AGILE,
AAM
Near Field Infrared Experiment
(NFIRE)
AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the
Mesosphere)
Launch Schedule
Reports
Between 2002 And 2006, the Rural Satellite VSAT
Market in Middle East and Africa Experienced Exponential Growth
(25
April 2007) Research and Markets announces the addition of Frost &
Sullivan's new report Rural Satellite VSAT Markets - Middle East and Africa to
their offering.
Business
A Step Closer to a European Space
Policy
(26 April 2007) Space is a strategic asset which Europe must
exploit more effectively. Europe cannot afford to lose out when it comes to
securing the economic and societal benefits of space for its citizens.
Globecomm Systems to Acquire GlobalSat Division of
Lyman Bros
(23 April 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider
of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions today announced that the
company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the GlobalSat
division of Lyman Bros., Inc.
Products and Services
Globalstar Launches Simplex Data
Service and Backoffice for Customers in Central America
(24 April
2007) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data
services to businesses, government and individuals, announced today that it has
launched Globalstar Simplex data service to customers throughout Central
America and the surrounding maritime region.
Telenor Satellite Services Expands Mobile Satellite
Equipment Portfolio
(24 April 2007) Telenor Satellite Services, a
subsidiary of Telenor of Norway today added the Addvalue Communications Wideye
SABRE 1 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminal to its inventory of On
Demand communications technologies.
Events
Envisat Symposium 2007 Kicks Off In
Switzerland
(23 April 2007) More than 900 scientists from around the
world have gathered in Montreux, Switzerland, for a five-day symposium to
discuss, present and review their findings on the state of our world's land,
oceans, ice and atmosphere using data from ESA Earth observation satellites, in
particular Envisat - the largest environmental satellite ever built.
Satellites Shed Light On Global
Warming
(27 April 2007) As climate change continues to make
headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this
week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better
understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting
the planet.
Sofia Hosts XXXV Session of
Intersputnik Board and 5th meeting of Operations Committee
(26 April
2007) On April 24-26, 2007 State Agency for Information Technologies and
Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria hosted the XXXV Board session and
5th meeting of the Operations Committee of the Intersputnik International
Organisation of Space Communications.
X
Prize Foundation and Holloman AFB Announce Partnership
(26 April
2007) Today, the X Prize Foundation and Holloman Air Force Base (HAFB)
announced a partnership intended to create the world's largest "Air & Space
Flight Demonstration."
People
Carl Ehrlich Joins SpaceWorks Engineering as
Affiliate
(26 April 2007) ring announces that veteran aerospace
engineer Mr. Carl Ehrlich has joined the firm as an affiliate and technical
advisor.
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints
Steven L. Soroka Vice President, Enterprise Operations
(23 April
2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced today that Steve Soroka has
joined the Company as Vice President of Enterprise Operations.
