2 September 2007
Satcoms
Gas Station TV Selects
Hughes to 'Fuel' Video at the Pump
SES
Astra In New Partnership To Step Up Marketing of High Speed Internet Access
"Astra2Connect"
State of Louisiana
Deploys BGAN from Stratos for First Responders
Broadcast
RRSat to Offer Access to the Asian Cable TV
Market: Distribution via Loral Skynet's Telstar 10
SES Astra Launches Digital Platform Entavio in
Germany
Earth
Observation
European Hot Spots and Fires Identified from
Space
Greece Suffers More Fires in 2007
Than in Last Decade, Satellites Reveal
NASA Satellites Eye Coastal Water
Quality
Spacehab Subsidiary Wins First
Competed Contract under Recently Awarded VAFB IDIQ
Navigation
Boeing Bids on Next Generation Global Positioning
Satellite System
Lockheed Martin Team
Submits Proposal to Design and Build U.S. Air Force's GPS III Space
Segment
Thales Alenia Space to Deliver
Giove-B Satellite to ESA
Military Space
DataPath to Support US CENTCOM Satellite
Communications Hubs
DRS Receives US$
250 M Award, Including Options, from the U.S. Navy to Provide a Satellite-Based
Network for Deployed Troops Overseas
Astrophysics
Astronomers Pioneer New Method for Probing Exotic
Matter
XMM-Newton and Suzaku Help
Pioneer Method for Probing Exotic Matter
Astronomy
AKARI Finishes Its Cool Observations
New Wide Field Near-Infrared Imager for ESO's Very
Large Telescope
Stars
Explosion on a Neutron Star
Neutron Stars Warp Space-Time
Water Vapour Seen 'Raining Down' On Young Star
System
Moon
SMART-1: Europe on the Moon, One Year
On
Earth
Gravity Satellite GOCE
Arrives at ESA's Test Centre
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Status Report: Camera
Concern Resolved - More Than 3,000 Images Returned
NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Resume
Driving
New Images Reveal Threatening
Conditions That Two Rovers Face in Giant Martian Dust Storm
SpaceDev Wet Chemistry Devices Begin Their
Journey to Mars
Saturn
Fasten Your Seat Belts, Turbulence Ahead -
Lessons From Titan
Scientists Glean
Turbulent Lessons From Saturn's Moon Titan
Manned Space
Ball Aerospace Presents Proposal for Ares I Crew
Launch Vehicle Instrument Unit Avionics
NASA Awards Reusable Solid Rocket Motors Contract
Modification
Boeing Selected to Build
NASA's Upper Stage for Ares I
NASA
Safety Review Finds No Evidence of Improper Alcohol Use by Astronauts Before
Space Flight
NASA Selects Ares I Upper
Stage Production Contractor
SpaceX
Dragon Spacecraft Receives Initial Approval From NASA Safety Review
Panel
Technology
Endevco Sensors Equip New Health Management
System Controller for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main
Engines
NASA's Centennial Challenges To
Advance Technologies
Launch
Services
Two "Sister" Payloads For Ariane 5's Next Mission
Are Now At The Spaceport
Business
iDirect Sets Up Presence In
Dubai
Products and
Services
Eutelsat and ViaSat Ready to Launch Tooway
Consumer Satellite Broadband Service in Germany
Most Powerful Uplink System for HDTV
Applications: Supported by ND SatCom's SkyRAY Series and New 750 Watt High
Power Amplifier
People
Richard Covey to Succeed McCulley as USA
President and CEO
SES Sirius Names New
Managing Director
Satcoms
Gas Station TV Selects
Hughes to 'Fuel' Video at the Pump
(27 August 2007) Hughes Network
Systems, LLC today announced that Gas Station TV (GSTV) has selected Hughes as
their digital signage satellite network provider to deliver entertainment,
news, local weather, and advertising to customers as they fuel-up at the
pump.
SES Astra In New Partnership To
Step Up Marketing of High Speed Internet Access "Astra2Connect"
(28
August 2007) SES Astra, an SES company, has closed a new contract to market its
high speed internet access product Astra2Connect to end consumers in
Germany.
State of Louisiana Deploys BGAN
from Stratos for First Responders
(28 August 2007) Stratos Global
Corp., the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote
communications solutions, today announced that the State of Louisiana has
completed deployment of BGAN from Stratos to support state-wide emergency
communication applications.
Broadcast
RRSat to Offer Access to the Asian Cable TV
Market: Distribution via Loral Skynet's Telstar 10
(29 August 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 it has
signed an agreement with Loral Skynet to offer distribution of video content to
the Asian Market via a powerful digital platform using Loral Skynet's Telstar
10 satellite.
SES Astra Launches Digital
Platform Entavio in Germany
(29 August 2007) SES Astra, an SES
company, will launch its new digital platform entavio at the international
consumer show IFA in Berlin on 1st September.
Earth Observation
European Hot Spots and Fires
Identified from Space
(27 August 2007) Hot spots across Southeastern
Europe from 21 to 26 August have been detected with instruments aboard ESA
satellites, which have been continuously surveying fires burning across the
Earth's surface for a decade.
Greece
Suffers More Fires in 2007 Than in Last Decade, Satellites
Reveal
(29 August 2007) Greece has experienced more wildfire
activity this August than other European countries have over the last decade,
according to data from ESA satellites.
NASA Satellites Eye Coastal Water
Quality
(29 August 2007) Researchers armed with data from two NASA
satellites have invented a way to map the fleeting changes in coastal water
quality from space.
Spacehab Subsidiary
Wins First Competed Contract under Recently Awarded VAFB IDIQ
(27
August 2007) Spacehab, Incorporated a leading provider of commercial space
services, today announced that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has
won the first fully funded task order under the recently awarded Vandenberg Air
Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for
the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2.
Navigation
Boeing Bids on Next Generation
Global Positioning Satellite System
(27 August 2007) The Boeing
Company today submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the development
and production of up to 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) III
satellites.
Lockheed Martin Team Submits
Proposal to Design and Build U.S. Air Force's GPS III Space
Segment
(27 August 2007) A Lockheed Martin-led team has submitted
its proposal to design and build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global
Positioning System Space Segment program, known as GPS Block III.
Thales
Alenia Space to Deliver Giove-B Satellite to ESA
(30 August 2007)
Thales Alenia Space announced today that on September 3rd it will ship Giove-B,
the second test satellite in the Galileo navigation constellation, from its
plant in Rome to the ESA-ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the
Netherlands.
Military
Space
DataPath to Support US CENTCOM Satellite
Communications Hubs
(27 August 2007) DataPath, Inc., a leading
provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world,
has been awarded a US$ 7.8 million contract to provide field services for a
critical network of 32 DataPath Deployable Ku Band Earth Terminals in the U.S.
Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility in Southwest Asia.
DRS Receives US$ 250 M Award, Including Options,
from the U.S. Navy to Provide a Satellite-Based Network for Deployed Troops
Overseas
(29 August 2007) DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today
that it received a US$ 250 million contract, including options, from the U.S.
Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Charleston in South
Carolina.
Astrophysics
Astronomers Pioneer New Method for Probing Exotic
Matter
(27 August 2007) Using European and Japanese/NASA X-ray
satellites, astronomers have seen Einstein's predicted distortion of space-time
around three neutron stars, and in doing so they have pioneered a
groundbreaking technique for determining the properties of these ultradense
objects.
XMM-Newton and Suzaku Help
Pioneer Method for Probing Exotic Matter
(27 August 2007)
Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein's predicted
distortion of space-time and pioneered a ground-breaking technique for
determining the properties of neutron stars.
Astronomy
AKARI Finishes Its Cool
Observations
(29 August 2007) The JAXA/ESA infrared astronomical
satellite, AKARI, ran out of its on-board supply of cryogen, liquid Helium at
08:33 (UT) on August 26th, 2007, signalling the completion of observations at
far-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths, including the All-Sky
Survey.
New Wide Field Near-Infrared
Imager for ESO's Very Large Telescope
(26 August 2007) Europe's
flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped
with a new 'eye' to study the Universe.
Stars
Explosion on a Neutron Star
(27 August
2007) Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein's predicted
distortion of space-time and pioneered a ground-breaking technique for
determining the properties of neutron stars.
Neutron Stars Warp Space-Time
(27
August 2007) Einstein's predicted distortion of space-time occurs around
neutron stars, University of Michigan astronomers and others have
observed.
Water Vapour Seen 'Raining
Down' On Young Star System
(29 August 2007) NASA's Spitzer Space
Telescope has detected enough water vapour to fill the oceans on Earth five
times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system.
Moon
SMART-1: Europe on the Moon, One Year
On
(31 August 2007) A year ago, as Europe reached the Moon for the
first time, scientists on Earth eagerly watched SMART-1's spectacular impact.
New results from the impact analysis and from the instruments still keep
coming.
Earth
Gravity Satellite
GOCE Arrives at ESA's Test Centre
(27 August 2007) After a four-day
road trip from Turin, Italy, ESA's GOCE satellite has arrived safely at the
Agency's test facilities in the Netherlands.
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Status Report: Camera
Concern Resolved - More Than 3,000 Images Returned
(26 August 2007)
Diagnostic tests and months of stable, successful operation have resolved
concerns raised early this year about long-term prospects for the powerful
telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Resume
Driving
(26 August 2007) After six weeks of hunkering down during
raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration
Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving.
New Images Reveal Threatening Conditions That Two
Rovers Face in Giant Martian Dust Storm
(30 August 2007) The mighty
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions,
as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home.
SpaceDev Wet Chemistry Devices Begin Their
Journey to Mars
(27 August 2007)SpaceDev announced today that it
provided key hardware and instruments for the recently launched Mars Phoenix
Lander, now on its way to Mars.
Saturn
Fasten Your Seat Belts, Turbulence Ahead -
Lessons From Titan
(28 August 2007) Ever spilled your drink on an
airline due to turbulence? Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are
finding new ways to understand the phenomenon - both on Earth and on
Titan.
Scientists Glean Turbulent
Lessons From Saturn's Moon Titan
(28 August 2007) Ever spilled your
drink on an airline because of turbulence? Researchers on both sides of the
Atlantic are finding new ways to understand the phenomenon-both in Earth's
atmosphere and in that of Saturn's moon Titan, aided by data gathered from the
Cassini-Huygens probe.
Manned
Space
Ball Aerospace Presents Proposal for Ares I Crew
Launch Vehicle Instrument Unit Avionics
(28 August 2007) Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Hamilton Sundstrand, and Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., (Team Ball) presented an oral summary of its Ares I
Crew Launch Vehicle Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) proposal to NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center on August 7, following a July 30 submission of the proposal
for cost volume.
NASA Awards Reusable
Solid Rocket Motors Contract Modification
(29 August 2007) NASA has
awarded a contract modification valued at US$ 681 million to ATK Launch Systems
of Brigham City, Utah, for continued delivery of space shuttle reusable solid
rocket motors.
Boeing Selected to Build
NASA's Upper Stage for Ares I
(28 August 2007) The Boeing Company
has been awarded a NASA contract valued at approximately US$ 514.7 million to
produce the upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle.
NASA Safety Review Finds No Evidence of Improper
Alcohol Use by Astronauts Before Space Flight
(29 August 2007) A
NASA safety review released Wednesday found no evidence to support claims that
astronauts were impaired by alcohol when they flew in space.
NASA Selects Ares I Upper Stage Production
Contractor
(28 August 2007) NASA on Tuesday selected The Boeing Co.,
Huntsville, Ala., as the contractor to provide manufacturing support for design
and construction of the upper stage of the Ares I rocket.
SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Receives Initial
Approval From NASA Safety Review Panel
(29 August 2007) SpaceX has
successfully completed the first of three phases of review required by NASA's
Safety Review Panel (SRP) to send its Dragon spacecraft to the International
Space Station (ISS).
Technology
Endevco Sensors Equip New
Health Management System Controller for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space
Shuttle Main Engines
(29 August 2007) Endevco Corporation, the
leader in sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure
applications, provided advanced accelerometers for new main engine controllers
used in the latest Space Shuttle launch.
NASA's Centennial Challenges To Advance
Technologies
(28 August 2007) From Oct. 19 to 21, more than 20 teams
from across the nation and around the world will compete for a total of US$
1,000,000 from NASA for the development of cutting-edge
technologies.
Launch
Services
Two "Sister" Payloads For Ariane 5's Next Mission
Are Now At The Spaceport
(30 August 2007) A pair of highly similar
satellites to be launched on Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission have been
delivered to the Spaceport in French Guiana and are now undergoing their
initial checkout.
Business
iDirect Sets Up Presence In Dubai
(29
August 2007) iDirect, Inc., a company of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc. (VT
Systems) and a global provider of IP- based satellite broadband communication
systems, today announced the opening of its Middle East/Africa headquarters in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Products and Services
Eutelsat and ViaSat Ready to
Launch Tooway Consumer Satellite Broadband Service in Germany
(31
August 2007) Eutelsat Communications and ViaSat Inc. today announced that the
consumer broadband satellite service they are partnering to offer in Europe
will be available from the end of September in Germany, with selected other
European markets to follow before the end of the year.
Most Powerful Uplink System for HDTV
Applications: Supported by ND SatCom's SkyRAY Series and New 750 Watt High
Power Amplifier
(30 August 2007) ND SatCom, an SES Astra company, is
introducing its new 750 Watt High Power Amplifier (HPA) at IBC 2007 and is
extending its mobile satellite portfolio by creating the market's most powerful
SNG uplink system for HDTV applications.
People
Richard Covey to Succeed McCulley as USA
President and CEO
(30 August 2007) Richard O. Covey has been named
to succeed Michael J. McCulley as President and Chief Executive Officer of
United Space Alliance, effective September 28, 2007.
SES Sirius Names New Managing
Director
(30 August 2007) SES Sirius today announced the appointment
of Hakan Sjodin as its new Managing Director beginning September 10.
