3 June 2007
Satcoms
Next AeroAstro Asset Tracking
Satellite Downlink Decoder (Applique) Declared Ready for
Deployment
Broadcast
DirecTV Delivers Even More Greek Programming to
Customers Nation-wide
DISH Network and MGM
Sign Video-On-Demand Movie Deal
New MCPC
Platform for RRSat on Galaxy 23 Satellite Offers Broadcasters Access to Cable
Operators and DBS All Over North America
Earth Observation
Huge Waves From One Storm Slam Coasts Some 6000 Km
Apart
Satellites Track Human Exposure to
Fine Particle Pollution
Space Systems/Loral
Awarded NASA Contract for Landsat Data Continuity Mission Accommodation
Study
Military
Space
AGS
Selected for SATCOM-II by GSA
General
Dynamics Awarded US$ 31 Million Option for Production of Tactical Satellite
Communications Terminals
General Dynamics
Successfully Completes On-Orbit Checkout of NFIRE Satellite for U.S. Missile
Defense Agency
Astronomy
NASA Pondering a Future Grapple on the James Webb
Space Telescope
NASA Space Telescope Gives
Scientists Depth Perception
Stars
NASA's FUSE Satellite Catches Collision of
Titans
Researchers Take Picture of the Face
of Altair, a First for a Star Like Our Own
Two of the World's Largest Interferometric Facilities
Team-up to Study a Red Giant Star
Galaxies
Spitzer Nets Thousands of Galaxies in a Giant
Cluster
Sun
Hinode's Solar Data Ready For Europe's
Access
Magnetic Field Uses Sound Waves to
Ignite Sun's Ring of Fire
Radio 'Screams'
From The Sun Warn Of Radiation Storms
Screaming CMEs Warn of Radiation
Storms
Extra-Solar
Planets
Ball Aerospace Completes Schmidt Corrector Optic
Bonding for Kepler
California, Carnegie Team
Reports 28 New Exoplanets, 7 New Brown Dwarfs
Massive Transiting Planet with 31-hour Year Found
Around Distant Star
Manned
Space
Aerojet Awarded NASA's Ares I Roll Control
Engine
International Space Station Status
Report: SS07-30
NASA Gives "Go" For Space
Shuttle Launch on June 8
NASA Starts Space
Shuttle Atlantis Countdown June 5
Technology
NASA Robot Completes Test Drive of Exploration
Capabilities
Successful Design Review and
Engine Test Bring Boeing X-51A Closer to Flight
Launch Services
Initial Build-Up Of The Ariane 5 GS Is
Complete At Europe's Spaceport
Starsem
Orbits Four Globalstar Satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome
Starsem's Successful Mission for
Globalstar
Launches
Globalstar 10 (4 satellites)
SinoSat 3
Launch
Schedule
Business
Intersputnik Joins RCC as
Observer
Products and
Services
Globalstar Launches Satellite Data and Voice Module in
the United States
Globecomm Introduces
AxxSys Orion, the Next Generation of Its Popular Satellite Network Management
System
Stratos Selected as Master
Distributor of Thrane & Thrane Products
Trimble VRS Now Service Launched in Colorado for High
Precision GNSS Positioning
People
Integral Systems Announces Leadership
Changes
Stephen Wilson Joins Globecomm as
Vice President of Operations of Globecomm Services Maryland
XTAR Names William R. Schmidt Vice President,
Government Services
Satcoms
Next AeroAstro Asset
Tracking Satellite Downlink Decoder (Applique) Declared Ready for
Deployment
(29 May 2007) AeroAstro today announced that the next
SENS asset tracking satellite downlink decoder rack passed all testing and is
ready for installation at a Globalstar ground gateway.
Broadcast
DirecTV Delivers Even More Greek Programming to
Customers Nation-wide
(30 May 2007) DirecTV is taking its
international programming platform, WorldDirect, to the next level with the
launch of its second Greek-language channel, A SAT - the satellite version of
the popular Greek channel Alpha TV.
DISH
Network and MGM Sign Video-On-Demand Movie Deal
(29 May 2007)
EchoStar Communications Corporation and its DISH Network satellite TV service
today announced an agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) to
carry the studio's current and catalogue movie titles on its Video On Demand
platform, DISH On Demand, as well as through its Pay-Per-View
services.
New MCPC Platform for RRSat on
Galaxy 23 Satellite Offers Broadcasters Access to Cable Operators and DBS All
Over North America
(30 May 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 recently started operating a new MCPC platform on
Galaxy 23 satellite located at 121 degrees west.
Earth Observation
Huge Waves From One Storm Slam
Coasts Some 6000 Km Apart
(30 May 2007) Huge waves that struck
Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all
originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa,
and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over
a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite.
Satellites Track Human Exposure to Fine Particle
Pollution
(31 May 2007) When it comes to air pollution, the smallest
size can do the most harm.
Space
Systems/Loral Awarded NASA Contract for Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Accommodation Study
(31 May 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 the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center's Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) recently
awarded SS/L a delivery order for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM)
Spacecraft Accommodation Study.
Military Space
AGS Selected for SATCOM-II by GSA
(29 May
2007) Americom Government Services, Inc. (AGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
SES Americom, announced today that it has been selected by the General Services
Administration (GSA) to offer satellite-based connections, networks, and
applications to all federal agencies under the SATCOM-II program.
General
Dynamics Awarded US$ 31 Million Option for Production of Tactical Satellite
Communications Terminals
(31 May 2007) General Dynamics SATCOM
Technologies has been awarded a US$ 30.5 million follow-on order for satellite
communications terminals that will be used in the U.S. Marine Corps Support
Wide Area Network (SWAN) program.
General
Dynamics Successfully Completes On-Orbit Checkout of NFIRE Satellite for U.S.
Missile Defense Agency
(25 May 2007) General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has successfully
completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of the Near Field Infrared
Experiment (NFIRE) and has turned satellite control authority over to the U.S.
Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Astronomy
NASA Pondering a Future Grapple on the James Webb
Space Telescope
(1 June 2007) When it launches in 2013 the James
Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the
Earth.
NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists
Depth Perception
(30 May 2007) Astronomers now have a new "eye" for
determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky
Way galaxy.
Stars
NASA's FUSE Satellite Catches Collision of
Titans
(30 May 2007) Using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic
Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have
determined, for the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive,
and young binary star system.
Researchers
Take Picture of the Face of Altair, a First for a Star Like Our
Own
(31 May 2007) Using a suite of four telescopes, astronomers have
captured an image of Altair, one of the closest stars to our own and a fixture
in the summer sky.
Two of the World's Largest
Interferometric Facilities Team-up to Study a Red Giant Star
(31 May
2007) Using ESO's VLTI on Cerro Paranal and the VLBA facility operated by NRAO,
an international team of astronomers has made what is arguably the most
detailed study of the environment of a pulsating red giant
star.
Galaxies
Spitzer Nets Thousands of
Galaxies in a Giant Cluster
(28 May 2007) In just a short amount of
time, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has bagged more than a thousand previously
unknown dwarf galaxies in a giant cluster of galaxies.
Sun
Hinode's Solar Data Ready For Europe's
Access
(30 May 2007) Since 27 May, Europe's scientists have free
access to spectacular data and images from Hinode, a Japan-led mission with ESA
participation that studies the mechanisms that power the Sun's atmosphere and
cause violent eruptions.
Magnetic Field Uses
Sound Waves to Ignite Sun's Ring of Fire
(29 May 2007) Sound waves
escaping the Sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power
the chromosphere, a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby
red "ring of fire" around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to
research funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Radio 'Screams' From The Sun Warn Of Radiation
Storms
(29 May 2007) ESA's SOHO has helped uncover radio screams
that foretell dangerous Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, which produce
radiation storms harming infrastructure on ground, in space as well as humans
in space.
Screaming CMEs Warn of Radiation
Storms
(28 May 2007) A CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) is a solar body
slam to our high-tech civilisation. CMEs begin when the sun launches a billion
tons of electrically conducting gas (plasma) into space at millions of miles
per hour.
Extra-Solar
Planets
Ball Aerospace Completes Schmidt Corrector Optic
Bonding for Kepler
(30 May 2007) Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp. has successfully completed the critical milestone of bonding the Schmidt
Corrector optic to its mounting ring for the Kepler Mission.
California, Carnegie Team Reports 28 New Exoplanets, 7
New Brown Dwarfs
(29 May 2007) The world's largest and most prolific
team of planet hunters announced Monday, May 28, the discovery of 28 new
planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known
exoplanets.
Massive Transiting Planet with
31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star
(31 May 2007) An
international team of astronomers with the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
today announce the discovery of their third planet, TrES-3.
Manned Space
Aerojet Awarded NASA's Ares I Roll
Control Engine
(30 May 2007) Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced
today its recent selection by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to provide
developmental engines for the Ares I crew launch vehicle first stage roll
control system.
International Space Station
Status Report: SS07-30
(1 June 2007) The Expedition 15 crew
completed the first of three planned spacewalks this week and prepared for the
upcoming arrival of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space
Station.
NASA Gives "Go" For Space Shuttle
Launch on June 8
(31 May 2007) On Thursday, NASA senior managers
selected June 8 as the official launch date for space shuttle
Atlantis.
NASA Starts Space Shuttle Atlantis
Countdown June 5
(1 June 2007) NASA will start the launch countdown
for Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 mission at 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 5, at
the T-43 hour point.
Technology
NASA Robot Completes Test Drive of
Exploration Capabilities
(31 May 2007) In late May, a NASA-funded
robot successfully navigated one of the world's deepest sinkholes.
Successful Design Review and Engine Test Bring Boeing
X-51A Closer to Flight
(1 June 2007) The Boeing [NYSE: BA] X-51A
WaveRider Scramjet Engine Demonstrator recently completed a Critical Design
Review (CDR) and fired its engine for the first time - two major program
milestones necessary for first flight.
Launch Services
Initial Build-Up Of The Ariane 5 GS Is Complete At
Europe's Spaceport
(1 June 2007) An Ariane 5 GS launch vehicle has
completed its initial assembly at Europe's Spaceport as preparations move ahead
for two Arianespace missions that are scheduled in an interval of less than one
month during August and September.
Starsem
Orbits Four Globalstar Satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome
(30 May
2007) The first mission for Arianespace's Starsem affiliate in 2007 has
successfully lofted four spacecraft to augment the Globalstar satellite
constellation.
Starsem's Successful Mission
for Globalstar
(31 May 2007) The successful May 30 Soyuz launch by
Arianespace's Starsem affiliate was the first of two missions planned in 2007
for Globalstar.
Launches
Globalstar 10 (4 satellites)
SinoSat 3
Launch
Schedule
Business
Intersputnik Joins RCC as Observer
(28 May
2007) The 37th meeting of the Heads of RCC Telecommunications Administrations
was held in Jurmala on May 28, 2007 on the invitation of the Ministry of
Transport of the Republic of Latvia.
Products and Services
Globalstar Launches Satellite Data
and Voice Module in the United States
(29 May 2007) Globalstar USA,
LLC, a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to
businesses, governments, and individuals, announced today that it has started
to deliver shipments of the new GSP-1720 satellite data and voice module (SDVM)
manufactured by Qualcomm Incorporated.
Globecomm Introduces AxxSys Orion, the Next Generation
of Its Popular Satellite Network Management System
(31 May 2007)
Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end value-added
satellite-based communications solutions, announced today the introduction of
AxxSys Orion, the next generation of its popular AxxSys satellite network
management system.
Stratos Selected as Master
Distributor of Thrane & Thrane Products
(29 May 2007) Stratos
Global Corp. (TSX: SGB) and Thrane & Thrane today announced they have
entered into an agreement establishing Stratos as a Master Distributor of
products manufactured by Thrane & Thrane.
Trimble VRS Now Service Launched in Colorado for High
Precision GNSS Positioning
(1 June 2007) Trimble announced today
that it has launched its Trimble VRS Now service in Colorado across Denver's
Front Range.
People
Integral Systems Announces Leadership
Changes
(1 June 2007) Integral Systems, Inc. today announced that
its Board of Directors has named Alan W. Baldwin, who is currently a Director
of the company, as interim Chief Executive Officer and Bill Lewis as interim
Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
Stephen Wilson Joins Globecomm as Vice President of
Operations of Globecomm Services Maryland
(31 May 2007) Globecomm
Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end value-added satellite-based
communications solutions, announced today that Stephen Wilson, formerly Vice
President of North American regional sales for New Skies Satellite, Inc.,
currently SES New Skies, has joined Globecomm as V.P. Operations of its new
Globecomm Services Maryland (GSM) operation, formerly GlobalSat.
XTAR Names William R. Schmidt Vice President,
Government Services
(29 May 2007) XTAR, LLC, a joint venture between
Loral Space & Communications and HISDESAT, today announced that it has
named William R. Schmidt vice president of government services.
