2 December 2007
Satcoms
Alphabus Development Well
Under Way
Archetype Signs IVAR Agreement
With Orbcomm
Com Dev Announces US$ 17
Million Commercial Order
ESA And Inmarsat
Sign Innovative Alphasat Satellite Contract
Essroc Improves Operational Effectiveness And
Efficiency With HughesNet Access Continuity Solution
FCC Grants Waiver To Mobile Satellite Ventures For
Ground Spare Satellite Requirement
Globecomm Systems Helps California Fire Relief
Agencies
Inmarsat And Astrium Sign
Alphasat I-XL Satellite Contract
Telemedicine: Health Alert Via
Satellite
Broadcast
Canal Satellite Reunion Boosts Capacity On
Eutelsat W2 Satellite For New Pay-TV Services
Globecomm Systems Awarded Contract For Broadcast
Earth Station Valued At US$ 1.0 Million
Southern Africa Direct Goes Live On Sky Channel
283
TDA (Telediffusion d'algerie)
Selects Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 3 Satellite To Support Launch Of Digital
Terrestrial Television In Algeria
Television Espanola (TVE) To Deploy Swe-Dish
Drive-Away Satcom Systems Nationwide
Earth Observation
Breakthrough Map Of Antarctica Lays Ground For New
Discoveries
DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1
Reaches Full Operational Capability With The National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency
Five Years In Orbit For First DMC
Satellite Alsat-1
Galileo Signal
Reflections Used For Monitoring Waves And Weather At Sea
IASI Instrument Built By Thales Alenia Space
Operational In Orbit
Meteosat Celebrates
30th Anniversary - Europe's Weather Satellite Program An Unqualified
Success
Navigation
Northrop Grumman Team Wins US$ 160 Million U.S.
Air Force Contract For Global Positioning System Next Generation Control
Segment
Raytheon Selected To Design The
Next GPS Control Segment For Precision Navigation And
Timing
Tracking
Digital Angel Corporation Receives Long-Term
Contract To Supply Rescue Systems To The UK Royal National Lifeboat
Institution
Military
Space
Boeing Demonstrates Maturity Of TSAT Encryption
System
CVG Receives US$ 52 Million
SATCOM-II Program Ordering Ceiling
Globecomm Systems Awarded Blanket IDIQ Contract
From A Global Multilateral Organisation Valued At Up To US$ 10
Million
NGC Qualifies XDR Software For
Advanced EHF Military Communications Satellite
STSS's Second Satellite Completes Successful
Thermal Vacuum Testing At NGC
Astronomy
NASA's GLAST Satellite Arrives At Naval Research
Lab For Testing
Stars
NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Discovers Cosmic
Fireball
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Sees An Embryonic Star With Jets Flaring
Galaxies
Discovering Teenage Galaxies
LEO II: An Old Dwarf Galaxy Has A Juvenescent
Heart
New Population Of Faint
Protogalaxies Discovered
Solar
System
Computer Simulation Predicts Voyager 2 Will Reach
Major Milestone In Space In Late 2007 Or Early 2008
Venus
NASA Scientist Confirms Light Show On
Venus
Venus: Earth's Twin
Planet?
Mars
CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
Mars Express - 5000 Orbits And
Counting
Saturn
Organic 'Building Blocks' Discovered In Titan's
Atmosphere
Asteroids
The Journey Of VIR-MS In The NASA Mission Dawn
Continues With Success
Extra-Solar Planets
Youthful Star Sprouts Planets
Early
Manned
Space
International Space Station Spacewalkers Complete
More Harmony Module Hookup Work
Jules
Verne ATV Given Its 'Wings'
Spacehab
Responds To NASA RFP Seeking Commercial ISS Resupply Means
STS-122 Crew In Practice
Countdown
Technology
ATI 425 Titanium Alloy Key Material For Mars
Lander Analytical Componentry
EaglePicher Technologies Ships First Lithium-Ion
Batteries For Communications Satellites
Quick Look Enables On-Time Launch At NASA
KSC
SpaceDev Solar Array Actuators
Launch Aboard WorldView-1 Satellite
Launch Services
Sea Launch Reschedules The Thuraya-3 Launch
Campaign
In
Orbit
L-3 Telemetry-West Provides Satellite Command And
Control Software For The Cornell University CUsat Nanosatellite
Program
Launches
Launch
Schedule
Events
FRINGE Workshop To Focus On Satellite
Interferometry
Ministerial summit on
'Global Earth Observation System of Systems'
People
Iridium Satellite Names New Executive Vice
President
Satcoms
Alphabus Development
Well Under Way
(23 November 2007) Astrium and Thales Alenia Space
are jointly developing Alphabus, the new European platform for next generation
high power communications satellites.
Archetype Signs IVAR Agreement With
Orbcomm
(29 November 2007) Orbcomm announced today Archetype has
signed an International Value Added Reseller (IVAR) agreement.
Com Dev Announces US$ 17 Million Commercial
Order
(29 November 2007) Com Dev International Ltd., a leading
manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that it has been
awarded a contract to provide advanced payload electronics for a major
commercial satellite constellation.
ESA
And Inmarsat Sign Innovative Alphasat Satellite Contract
(23
November 2007) The Alphasat programme is a major co-operation between the
public and private sectors.
Essroc
Improves Operational Effectiveness And Efficiency With HughesNet Access
Continuity Solution
(27 November 2007) Hughes Network Systems, LLC
today announced that it is providing Essroc, a leading North American cement
producer, with HughesNet Access Continuity, a diverse path backup solution that
ensures communications continuity.
FCC
Grants Waiver To Mobile Satellite Ventures For Ground Spare Satellite
Requirement
(28 November 2007) Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV)
announced today that the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
recognising MSV's in-orbit back-up capabilities, has waived a requirement that
the company build a ground-based spare satellite in the event of satellite
failure.
Globecomm Systems Helps
California Fire Relief Agencies
(26 November 2007) Globecomm Systems
Inc., a leading provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure
solutions and services on a global basis, today announced that during the
recent fires in the State of California, it donated satellite equipment and
technical support to relieve and support workers, including fire-fighters,
agencies and business owners.
Inmarsat And
Astrium Sign Alphasat I-XL Satellite Contract
(23 November 2007)
Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, has
awarded a contract to the European satellite leader Astrium for the Alphasat
I-XL satellite to augment its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)
service.
Telemedicine: Health Alert Via
Satellite
(30 November 2007) Heraklion, Crete: An earthquake has
just shaken the Greek island.
Broadcast
Canal Satellite Reunion Boosts Capacity On
Eutelsat W2 Satellite For New Pay-TV Services
(27 November 2007)
Eutelsat Communications today announced the signature of a multi-year contract
with Canal Satellite Reunion, which is a subsidiary of Canal Overseas (Canal +
Group).
Globecomm Systems Awarded
Contract For Broadcast Earth Station Valued At US$ 1.0 Million
(27
November 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading provider of satellite-based
communications infrastructure solutions and services on a global basis, today
announced that the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a
direct-to-home broadcast earth station valued at US$ 1.0 million from an
existing customer, which is a long-term European services provider.
Southern Africa Direct Goes Live On Sky Channel
283
(27 November 2007) Southern Africa Direct, an exciting new
lifestyle and culture TV channel, has now gone live on Sky channel
283.
TDA (Telediffusion d'algerie)
Selects Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 3 Satellite To Support Launch Of Digital
Terrestrial Television In Algeria
(29 November 2007) Eutelsat
Communications has inked a contract for capacity on its Atlantic Bird 3
satellite with Telediffusion d'Algerie (TDA) to broadcast Algeria's national
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) package of television and radio channels.
The launch of the new platform underpins the Algerian government's objective to
manage the transition of the country's broadcasting sector into a fully digital
environment.
Television Espanola (TVE) To
Deploy Swe-Dish Drive-Away Satcom Systems Nationwide
(29 November
2007) Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has received an order
for up to 20 Swe-Dish Drive-Away 150 systems for several Spanish broadcasters,
primarily Television Espanola (TVE).
Earth Observation
Breakthrough Map Of Antarctica
Lays Ground For New Discoveries
(27 November 2007) A team of
researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science
Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of
Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionise research of the continent's
frozen landscape.
DigitalGlobe's
WorldView-1 Reaches Full Operational Capability With The National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(26 November 2007) DigitalGlobe,
provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and
geospatial information products, today announced that WorldView-1 has completed
its commissioning, meets all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView
program.
Five Years In Orbit For First
DMC Satellite Alsat-1
(28 November 2007) This week, Algeria
celebrates the 5th anniversary of its first satellite, AlSAT-1 which marked the
beginning of the country's national space programme.
Galileo Signal Reflections Used For Monitoring
Waves And Weather At Sea
(26 November 2007) Surrey Satellite
Technology Ltd (SSTL) and the University of Surrey have succeeded for the first
time in capturing a Galileo signal reflected off the ocean surface in orbit,
demonstrating the potential for determining the weather at sea with remote
sensing satellites.
IASI Instrument Built
By Thales Alenia Space Operational In Orbit
(26 November 2007)
Following the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) conference,
held in France (Anglet) from 13 to 16 November 2007 and organised by the French
Space Agency (CNES) and Eumetsat, Thales Alenia Space is joining the Agencies
and the scientists to celebrate the validation of the instrument and the good
quality of the first results.
Meteosat
Celebrates 30th Anniversary - Europe's Weather Satellite Program An Unqualified
Success
(27 November 2007) Thales Alenia Space, prime contractor for
Meteosat satellites, joined French space agency CNES, the European Space Agency
(ESA) and the European Meteorological Satellite Organization (Eumetsat), to
celebrate the 30th anniversary of Meteosat weather
satellites.
Navigation
Northrop Grumman Team Wins US$
160 Million U.S. Air Force Contract For Global Positioning System Next
Generation Control Segment
(26 November 2007) Northrop Grumman
Corporation has been awarded a US$ 160 million U.S. Air Force contract for the
Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) System
design and risk reduction.
Raytheon
Selected To Design The Next GPS Control Segment For Precision Navigation And
Timing
(26 November 2007) Raytheon Company has been awarded a US$
160 million, 18-month contract to develop a new system design for the
next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment.
Tracking
Digital Angel Corporation
Receives Long-Term Contract To Supply Rescue Systems To The UK Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
(29 November 2007) Digital Angel Corporation
(the "Company"), a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID)
and global positioning system (GPS) technologies that enable the rapid and
accurate identification, location tracking and condition monitoring of people,
animals and high-value assets, announced today that it has signed a long-term
contract between its McMurdo division and the UK's Royal National Lifeboat
Institution (RNLI), to supply the RNLI's "MOB (man overboard) Guardian" rescue
system.
Military
Space
Boeing Demonstrates Maturity Of TSAT Encryption
System
(28 November 2007) The Boeing Company has successfully
demonstrated the communications and transmission security architecture of its
proposed Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT).
CVG
Receives US$ 52 Million SATCOM-II Program Ordering Ceiling
(27
November 2007) CVG, Inc. (CVG) announced today that it has received a US$ 52.4
million ordering ceiling under the Company's Indefinite-Delivery
Indefinite-Quantity contract with U.S. General Services Administration's
Satellite Services-II (SATCOM-II) program.
Globecomm Systems Awarded Blanket IDIQ Contract
From A Global Multilateral Organisation Valued At Up To US$ 10
Million
(29 November 2007) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading
provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and
services on a global basis, today announced that the Company's wholly-owned
subsidiary, Globecomm Network Services Corporation (GNSC), has been awarded a
blanket indefinite-delivery /indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at up
to US$ 10 million from a global multilateral organisation.
NGC Qualifies XDR Software For Advanced EHF
Military Communications Satellite
(26 November 2007) Northrop
Grumman Corporation has completed qualification testing of the payload flight
software for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military
communications satellite payload.
STSS's
Second Satellite Completes Successful Thermal Vacuum Testing At
NGC
(29 November 2007) The second of two Space Tracking and
Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites being built by prime
contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing.
Astronomy
NASA's GLAST Satellite Arrives At Naval Research
Lab For Testing
(30 November 2007) NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space
Telescope (GLAST) has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in
Washington, for its final round of testing.
Stars
NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Discovers Cosmic
Fireball
(28 November 2007) One of the fastest moving stars ever
seen has been discovered with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Sees An Embryonic
Star With Jets Flaring
(29 November 2007) A developing star wrapped
in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Galaxies
Discovering Teenage Galaxies
(28
November 2007) Staring, for the equivalent of every night for two weeks, at the
same little patch of sky with ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team
of astronomers has found the extremely faint light from teenage galaxies
billions of light years away.
LEO II: An
Old Dwarf Galaxy Has A Juvenescent Heart
(29 November 2007) A team
of 15 astronomers observed the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo II and found that
the galaxy is more extended than previously thought and established a
star-formation history of this galaxy.
New Population Of Faint Protogalaxies
Discovered
(29 November 2007) Pasadena, CA-Astronomers have found a
new population of faint protogalaxies by taking the most sensitive
spectroscopic survey ever of a time when the universe was only 15% of its
present age.
Solar
System
Computer Simulation Predicts Voyager 2 Will Reach
Major Milestone In Space In Late 2007 Or Early 2008
(29 November
2007) Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC
Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will
cross the "termination shock," the spherical shell around the solar system that
marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed.
Venus
NASA Scientist Confirms Light Show On
Venus
(28 November 2007) Venus is a hellish place of high
temperatures and crushing air pressure.
Venus: Earth's Twin Planet?
(28
November 2007) ESA's Venus Express has revealed Venus as never
before.
Mars
CRISM Views Phobos and
Deimos
(27 November 2007) These two images taken by the Compact
Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small
moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low
orbit around Mars.
Mars Express - 5000
Orbits And Counting
(23 November 2007) On 25 December 2003, Europe's
first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet.
Saturn
Organic 'Building Blocks' Discovered In Titan's
Atmosphere
(29 November 2007) Scientists analysing data gathered by
Cassini have confirmed the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions
of Titan's atmosphere. These particles may act as building blocks for more
complicated organic molecules.
Asteroids
The Journey Of VIR-MS In The NASA Mission Dawn
Continues With Success
(29 November 2007) After the successful
launch of the interplanetary space probe Dawn on the 27th of September 2007
from Cape Canaveral, the VIR-MS (Visibile InfraRed - Mapper Spectrometer)
instrument was switched on for the first time.
Extra-Solar Planets
Youthful Star Sprouts Planets
Early
(28 November 2007) A stellar prodigy has been spotted about
450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space
Telescope.
Manned
Space
International Space Station Spacewalkers Complete
More Harmony Module Hookup Work
(25 November 2007) International
Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani completed a
7-hour, 4 minute spacewalk at 11:54 a.m. EST Saturday, continuing the external
outfitting of the Harmony node in its new position in front of the U.S
laboratory Destiny.
Jules Verne ATV Given
Its 'Wings'
(30 November 2007) The next time Jules Verne ATV's four
solar arrays are fully deployed, giving the vehicle a total span of 22.3 m,
will be in early 2008, at 28 000 km/h over the South Pacific Ocean.
Spacehab Responds To NASA RFP Seeking Commercial
ISS Resupply Means
(29 November 2007) Spacehab Inc., a leading
provider of commercial space services, today announced that the Company has
submitted a formal proposal response to NASA's Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS) Phase 1 Demonstrations Request for Proposal
(RFP) based on the Advanced Research and Conventional Technology Utilisation
Spacecraft (ARCTUS) design.
STS-122 Crew
In Practice Countdown
(20 November 2007) ESA astronauts Hans
Schlegel and Léopold Eyharts and their fellow STS-122 crewmembers are
currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, taking part in a practice
countdown ahead of their mission to deliver the European Columbus laboratory to
the International Space Station in December.
Technology
ATI 425 Titanium Alloy Key
Material For Mars Lander Analytical Componentry
(27 November 2007)
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) announced today that one of its
proprietary alloys is being used on the Phoenix Mars Lander.
EaglePicher Technologies Ships First Lithium-Ion
Batteries For Communications Satellites
(28 November 2007)
EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, an EaglePicher company and a leading producer of
batteries and energetic devices for the defence, space and commercial
industries, today announced it has shipped its first two orders for lithium-ion
(Li-Ion) batteries to Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC).
Quick Look Enables On-Time Launch At NASA
KSC
(30 November 2007) As the countdown clock clicked down toward
the launch of space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120, the team in the
Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center had to make the "go/no-go"
decision for launch.
SpaceDev Solar Array
Actuators Launch Aboard WorldView-1 Satellite
(26 November 2007)
SpaceDev, Inc. announced today the first flight of its new solar array
rotational drive assemblies (SADA) and drive control electronics (DCE) aboard
the Digitalglobe WorldView-1 satellite, launched September 18th from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California.
Launch Services
Sea Launch Reschedules The Thuraya-3 Launch
Campaign
(26 November 2007) Due to unusually strong ocean currents
at the launch site, Sea Launch is rescheduling the launch campaign for the
Thuraya-3 satellite.
In
Orbit
L-3 Telemetry-West Provides Satellite Command And
Control Software For The Cornell University CUsat Nanosatellite
Program
(27 November 2007) Telemetry-West, a division of L-3
Communications, announced today that it has provided licenses of its InControl
software application to Cornell University for the CUSat Nanosatellite
program.
Launches
Launch
Schedule
Events
FRINGE Workshop To Focus On Satellite
Interferometry
(26 November 2007) Scientists working in the field of
SAR interferometry and its applications meet this week to exchange scientific
results at the FRINGE 2007 workshop.
Ministerial summit on 'Global Earth Observation
System of Systems'
(28 November 2007) A new global Earth observation
system, that could save lives in disasters such as the recent cyclone in
southern Bangladash, is being reviewed at a ministerial-level summit in Cape
Town this week.
People
Iridium Satellite Names New Executive Vice
President
(29 November 2007) Iridium Satellite announces the
appointment of John Roddy as executive vice president for ground operations and
product development.
