29 July 2007
Satcoms
Bentley Walker Buys Hughes HX
Broadband Satellite System
Colombia's
Axesat Chooses Gilat to Provide a SkyEdge Broadband Satellite Network
Satellite Multimedia For Mobile 'Phones
SES New Skies' NSS-5 Satellite Provides GSM Backhaul
Services In Papua New Guinea
Vizada
Distributes Thuraya GmPRS Service
Worst
Floods in 50 Years Lead to Greater Demand for Satellite
Phones
Broadcast
ATCi Provides Fly Away Uplink System for Radio
Television Guatemala
Earth
Observation
Campaign Prepares For Future Land-Surface
Monitoring
DigitalGlobe Expands Commercial
Imagery Distribution Network in Australia and New Zealand
DMCii Wins ESA Satellite Imaging Contract
New NASA AIRS Data to Aid Weather, Climate
Research
Navigation
First Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellite Marks 10
Years in Service
Military
Space
GEO-1 Payload Readied for Delivery for Start of
Integration with Spacecraft
Globecomm
Systems Receives Award under an IDIQ Contract from a US Government
Customer
Globecomm Systems Receives
Contract Modifications from NATO Supporting Recently Deployed GPS-Based Force
Tracking System
Payload for Lockheed
Martin-Built Missile Warning Satellite Completes Extensive Environmental Test
Phase
Teledyne Wins Air Force Contract for
Large Format Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
Astronomy
International Consortium Is Created to Build World's
Largest Submillimeter Telescope
Interstellar
Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Charged-Molecule Discovery
NASA Uses NI LabVIEW FPGA to Test Advanced Space
Telescope
Stars
Arizona Radio Observatory Team Discovers Supergiant
Star Spews Molecules Needed For Life
Black Holes
NASA's Chandra Catches "Piranha" Black
Holes
Mars
NASA Langley Helps With Next
Mars Mission: Phoenix
Manned
Space
ATK
Awarded Additional Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) Motor Contract Valued at
Approximately US$ 70 Million
NASA Announces
Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates And Crew
NASA Gives 'Go' for Shuttle Endeavour Launch on Aug.
7
NASA Moves Forward With Astronaut
Assessments
Launch
Services
A Double Transfer at the Spaceport for the Next Two
Ariane 5 Launchers
Business
Eagle Broadband's IT Services Satellite Group to Grow
Dallas Division
iDirect Technologies Sets
Up Wholly Owned Subsidiary to Expand Government Business
ViaSat to Acquire JAST Antenna
Systems
Events
The Spaceward Foundation Will Hold the 2007 Space
Elevator Games in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19 - October
21
People
Arrowhead Global Solutions
Names Elaine Wolfson Vice President of Integrated Network Services
Harris Corporation Names Franklin Van Rensselaer Vice
President and Sr. Executive Account Manager for NASA Programs
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints Ray Baxter Vice
President, Federal Sales
Spacenet Appoints
Michael C. Hughes as Chief Financial Officer
Trimble Elects New Chairman and Vice
Chairman
XM Chief Executive CEO Hugh Panero
to Step Aside
Satcoms
Bentley Walker Buys Hughes
HX Broadband Satellite System
(23 July 2007) Hughes Network Systems,
LLC, the world's leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions and
services, today announced that Bentley Walker has purchased an HX System
Network Operations Centre (NOC), a compact, cost-effective satellite solution
for smaller networks that provides high Quality of Service.
Colombia's Axesat Chooses Gilat to Provide a SkyEdge
Broadband Satellite Network
(25 July 2007) Gilat Satellite Networks
Ltd. today announced it has been chosen by Axesat, a leading satellite service
provider in Latin America, to provide a SkyEdge broadband satellite network
comprised of a hub and more than 400 SkyEdge VSATs.
Satellite Multimedia For Mobile
'Phones
(26 July 2007) ESA's Telecommunications Department is
supporting the development of technology needed for satellite systems to
broadcast digital multimedia content such as video, television programmes,
radio, and data to mobile telephones and vehicle-borne receivers.
SES
New Skies' NSS-5 Satellite Provides GSM Backhaul Services In Papua New
Guinea
(25 July 2007) SES New Skies, an SES company today announced
the launch of GSM backhaul services for Telikom Papua New Guinea on its NSS-5
satellite.
Vizada Distributes Thuraya GmPRS
Service
(25 July 2007) Vizada (formerly France Telecom Mobile
Satellite Communications), the leading reseller of Thuraya mobile satellite
communications services, has begun distributing Thuraya GmPRS.
Worst Floods in 50 Years Lead to Greater Demand for
Satellite Phones
(25 July 2007) International satellite
communications provider NSSL is reporting an upsurge in demand for handheld
satellite phones since major flooding hit large parts of the
UK.
Broadcast
ATCi Provides Fly Away
Uplink System for Radio Television Guatemala
(24 July 2007) Antenna
Technology Communications Inc., a provider of commercial satellite
communications systems, today announced that it has completed its contract to
design, integrate and install a complete flyaway uplink system for another
Spanish-Language Channel - Radio Television Guatemala
(RTG).
Earth
Observation
Campaign Prepares For Future Land-Surface
Monitoring
(23 July 2007) Initial results from an extensive ESA
field campaign, which is being carried out in support of the development of the
GMES Sentinel-2 mission and the candidate Earth Explorer FLEX mission, prove
encouraging and could pave the way for future monitoring of the Earth's
surface.
DigitalGlobe Expands Commercial
Imagery Distribution Network in Australia and New Zealand
(23 July
2007) DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution imagery and
geospatial information products, today announced the addition of Geoimage Pty
Ltd of Brisbane, Australia to its network of distribution partners.
DMCii Wins ESA Satellite Imaging
Contract
(20 July 2007) The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a
contract to British company DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) this week to
provide satellite imagery of 38 countries in Europe.
New NASA AIRS Data to Aid Weather, Climate
Research
(25 July 2007) There's an old saying, "You can't see the
forest for the trees." When it comes to global climate change, it's not hard to
spot the "trees" - they're in the news headlines nearly every
day.
Navigation
First Lockheed Martin-Built GPS
Satellite Marks 10 Years in Service
(23 July 2007) The first U.S.
Air Force Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR) satellite, built by a
team led by Lockheed Martin, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit
service, providing the U.S. military and civil users world-wide with highly
accurate navigation capabilities since 1997.
Military Space
GEO-1 Payload Readied for Delivery for Start of
Integration with Spacecraft
(23 July 2007) Lockheed Martin announced
today that the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS)
geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum
testing, a key milestone in preparation for launch of this first-of-its-kind
satellite.
Globecomm Systems Receives Award
under an IDIQ Contract from a US Government Customer
(25 July 2007)
Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end value-added
satellite-based communications solutions, announced today that the Company has
received an award under an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)
contract from a U.S. Government customer valued at US$ 12.8 million to supply
transportable flyaway satellite systems.
Globecomm Systems Receives Contract Modifications
from NATO Supporting Recently Deployed GPS-Based Force Tracking
System
(24 July 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of
end-to-end value-added satellite-based communications solutions, announced
today that the company has received two contract modifications from NATO valued
at US$ 2.0 million to support the company's recently deployed GPS-Based Force
Tracking System.
Payload for Lockheed
Martin-Built Missile Warning Satellite Completes Extensive Environmental Test
Phase
(23 July 2007) Lockheed Martin announced today that the
payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit
(GEO) spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, a key
milestone in preparation for launch of this first-of-its-kind
satellite.
Teledyne Wins Air Force Contract
for Large Format Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
(24 July 2007) Teledyne
Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne
Scientific & Imaging, LLC, was awarded a five-year contract for the Air
Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) High Stare program.
Astronomy
International Consortium Is Created to Build World's
Largest Submillimeter Telescope
(26 July 2007) Five institutions
from North America and Europe have created a consortium to oversee the building
of a 25-meter submillimeter telescope on a high elevation in Chile.
Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New
Charged-Molecule Discovery
(23 July 2007) Astronomers using data
from the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
(GBT) have found the largest negatively-charged molecule yet seen in
space.
NASA Uses NI LabVIEW FPGA to Test
Advanced Space Telescope
(24 July 2007) The James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), NASA's next-generation successor to the Hubble, has passed a
crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the help of National Instruments
LabVIEW FPGA.
Stars
Arizona Radio Observatory Team Discovers Supergiant
Star Spews Molecules Needed For Life
(23 July 2007) University of
Arizona astronomers who are probing the oxygen-rich environment around a
supergiant star with one of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes have
discovered a score of molecules that include compounds needed for
life.
Black
Holes
NASA's Chandra Catches "Piranha" Black
Holes
(25 July 2007) Supermassive black holes have been discovered
to grow more rapidly in young galaxy clusters, according to new results from
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Mars
NASA Langley Helps With Next Mars Mission:
Phoenix
(27 July 2007) The launch window opens August 3 for liftoff
of NASA's next mission to Mars: Phoenix. Experts from NASA Langley have been
working since February 2003 to ensure the craft will land safely next
spring.
Manned
Space
ATK Awarded Additional Orion Launch Abort System (LAS)
Motor Contract Valued at Approximately US$ 70 Million
(23 July 2007)
Alliant Techsystems has been selected by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part
of the Orion prime contractor team, led by Lockheed Martin, to provide the
attitude control motor (ACM) for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle launch
abort system (LAS).
NASA Announces Next
Undersea Exploration Mission Dates And Crew
(24 July 2007) NASA will
send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the
ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15.
NASA Gives 'Go' for Shuttle Endeavour Launch on Aug.
7
(26 July 2007) On Thursday, NASA managers set Aug. 7 as the
official launch date for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission to the
International Space Station.
NASA Moves
Forward With Astronaut Assessments
(27 July 2007) NASA Deputy
Administrator Shana Dale said the agency is moving forward to implement many of
the recommendations contained in two studies released Friday about astronaut
health and behavioural assessments.
Launch Services
A Double Transfer at the Spaceport for the Next Two
Ariane 5 Launchers
(27 July 2007) The Ariane 5 ECA for Arianespace's
next heavy-lift flight has been transferred to the Final Assembly Building at
Europe's Spaceport, where the vehicle will be fitted with its dual satellite
payload.
Business
Eagle Broadband's IT Services Satellite Group to Grow
Dallas Division
(25 July 2007) Eagle Broadband, Inc., a leading
national provider of broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) and digital
communications technology and services, today announced that its Eagle
Satellite Systems Group (ESS) within the IT Services division will relocate two
key Team leaders to Dallas to grow the ESS Dallas operation.
iDirect Technologies Sets Up Wholly Owned Subsidiary
to Expand Government Business
(26 July 2007) iDirect Inc., a company
of Vision Technologies Systems Inc. (VT Systems), today announced it has set up
iDirect Government Technologies (iGT) Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary to
drive broader adoption of its IP-based satellite networking solutions in the
government market.
ViaSat to Acquire JAST
Antenna Systems
(24 July 2007) ViaSat Inc., a producer of innovative
satellite and other digital communication products, has agreed to acquire
privately-held JAST Antenna Systems.
Events
The Spaceward Foundation Will Hold the 2007 Space
Elevator Games in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19 - October
21
(25 July 2007) The Spaceward Foundation announced today the venue
and timing for its annual Space Elevator games.
People
Arrowhead Global Solutions Names Elaine Wolfson Vice
President of Integrated Network Services
(26 July 2007) Arrowhead
Global Solutions Inc., a CapRock Company, has named Elaine Wolfson Vice
President of Integrated Network Services.
Harris Corporation Names Franklin Van Rensselaer Vice
President and Sr. Executive Account Manager for NASA Programs
(24
July 2007) Harris Corporation, an international communications and information
technology company, has named Franklin L. Van Rensselaer vice president of
Business Development and senior executive account manager for the NASA Programs
business area of Harris Government Communications Systems.
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints Ray Baxter Vice
President, Federal Sales
(24 July 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures LP
(MSV) announced today that Ray S. Baxter has joined the company as vice
president for Federal Sales.
Spacenet
Appoints Michael C. Hughes as Chief Financial Officer
(23 July 2007)
Spacenet Inc. today announced that Michael C. Hughes has joined the company as
its new Chief Financial Officer.
Trimble
Elects New Chairman and Vice Chairman
(24 July 2007) Trimble
announced that its board of directors today elected a new chairman and vice
chairman following the death of chairman Dr. Robert S. Cooper on July 2,
2007.
XM Chief Executive CEO Hugh Panero to
Step Aside
(24 July 2007) XM Satellite Radio today announced that XM
Satellite Radio Chief Executive Officer, Hugh Panero will be leaving the
company in August.
