18 May 2008
Satcoms
Mongolia's Incomnet Selects
Gilat's SkyEdge Broadband Satellite Network For Nationwide Telephony and Data
Connectivity
Myanmar Cyclone Nargis Victims
Re-Connected Via Telecommunication
Orbital
Partners With Thales Alenia Space To Build KT Corporation's Koreasat 6
Communications Satellite
Romantis Secures
Intelsat 15 Capacity To Establish Platform Across Three Regions
Thales Alenia Space To Provide Koreasat 6
Satellite
Broadcast
DirecTV Goes With Harris NetVX Contribution HD Video
Networking Solution
DISH Network Charges
Forward With Another Round Of National HD Channel Launches
Speedyfunk TV Equips Trucks For High Definition With
Advent's DVE5000
Earth
Observation
GeoEye Scheduled To Launch Next-Generation Earth
Imaging Satellite August 22, 2008 From Vandenberg AFB, California
ITT Space Science Instrument Expertise Recognised By
NASA
Raytheon Reaches Key Milestone On NASA
Glory Space Program
Navigation
U.S. Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin Team US$ 1.4
Billion Contract To Build GPS III Space System
Military Space
Boeing's 1st Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Now
Operational
Lockheed Martin Submits Bid For
U.S. Air Force Space Situational Awareness Program
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find That Universe Shines Twice As
Bright
Astronomy
NASA GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets For The
Beach
Galaxies
A Molecular Thermometer For The Distant
Universe
Supernova
Discovery Of Most Recent Supernova In Our
Galaxy
Youngest Stellar Explosion In Our
Galaxy Discovered
Solar
System
LIDAR Imaging Detector Could Build 'Super Road Maps'
Of Planets And Moons
Venus
Key Molecule Discovered In Venus's
Atmosphere
Mars
Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road To MarsIntense
Testing Paved Phoenix Road To Mars
NASA Phoenix
Mission Ready For Mars Landing
NASA
Satellite Finds Interior Of Mars Is Colder
Jupiter
Wandering Poles Left Scars On
Europa
Manned
Space
NASA Assigns Part Of Crew For Expedition 20 Space
Station Mission
New Water Reclamation System
Headed For Duty On Space Station
Launch Services
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Completes
Hot-Fire Tests On Next Generation Of Space Launch Vehicle Engine
U.S.
Air Force Awards United Launch Alliance SBIRS GEO-2 Satellite
Launch
Launches
Progress M-64 (ISS 29P)
Launch
Schedule
Business
Com Dev Completes Acquisition Of Passive Microwave
Devices Product Line From L-3 Communications
Products and Services
Sectra Launches Secure Satellite
Telephony
Spirent Federal Announces High
Dynamic GPS/Galileo/GLONASS Simulation System
Events
SpaceOps 2008 Conference Successfully
Launched
People
Boeing Names Hoshstrasser To Lead Florida
Operations
United Space Alliance Selects
Huntsville Operations Vice President
Satcoms
Mongolia's Incomnet Selects
Gilat's SkyEdge Broadband Satellite Network For Nationwide Telephony and Data
Connectivity
(12 May 2008) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. today
announced it will provide Incomnet with a Gilat SkyEdge broadband satellite
communications network to serve end users throughout Mongolia.
Myanmar Cyclone Nargis Victims Re-Connected Via
Telecommunication
(16 May 2008) The International Telecommunication
Union has deployed 100 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication
links in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2 May with
devastating effect in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region.
Orbital Partners With Thales Alenia Space To Build KT
Corporation's Koreasat 6 Communications Satellite
(14 May 2008)
Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that it has signed a contract with
Thales Alenia Space of France to supply its STAR satellite platform and carry
out final spacecraft, payload and system integration and testing for the
Koreasat 6 commercial communications satellite to be built for KT Corporation
of the Republic of Korea.
Romantis Secures
Intelsat 15 Capacity To Establish Platform Across Three Regions
(13
May 2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite
services, announced today that Romantis GmbH ("Romantis"), a European satellite
capacity trader providing satellite transmission services for European, African
and Asian markets, signed another multi-year, multi-transponder contract for
capacity on the Intelsat system to expand its service offering into the CIS, EU
and the Middle East.
Thales Alenia Space To
Provide Koreasat 6 Satellite
(14 May 2008) Thales Alenia Space
announced today that it has signed a contract with Korea Telecom (KT) to
provide their next telecommunication satellite, Koreasat 6.
Broadcast
DirecTV Goes With Harris NetVX
Contribution HD Video Networking Solution
(12 May 2008) Harris
Corporation, an international communications and information technology
company, is now delivering NetVX HD video networking equipment to DirecTV, a
leader in direct-to-home satellite TV services, for HD contribution encoding
and transport, ultimately increasing HD program quality for DirecTV.
DISH Network Charges Forward With Another Round Of
National HD Channel Launches
(11 May 2008) DISH Network Corporation,
today announced plans to bolster its rapidly expanding HD programming with the
launch of an additional 22 national HD channels beginning Monday, May
12.
Speedyfunk TV Equips Trucks For High
Definition With Advent's DVE5000
(12 May 2008) Speedyfunk TV, a live
broadcast production company based in Munich and Vienna, has purchased two
HD-ready DVE 5000 satellite transmission systems from UK manufacturer Advent
Communications.
Earth
Observation
GeoEye Scheduled To Launch Next-Generation Earth
Imaging Satellite August 22, 2008 From Vandenberg AFB,
California
(14 May 2008) GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of
satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced an August 22, 2008
launch date for its next-generation, earth imaging satellite GeoEye-1.
ITT Space Science Instrument Expertise Recognised By
NASA
(12 May 2008) ITT Corporation announced today the company was
selected for an award under NASA's Instrument Incubator Program.
Raytheon Reaches Key Milestone On NASA Glory Space
Program
(12 May 2008) Raytheon Company has completed manufacture and
testing of the optics detector module for the aerosol polarimetry
sensor.
Navigation
U.S. Air Force Awards Lockheed
Martin Team US$ 1.4 Billion Contract To Build GPS III Space
System
(15 May 2008) The U.S. Air Force today announced that a team
led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the next-generation
Global Positioning System (GPS) Space System program, known as GPS
III.
Military
Space
Boeing's 1st Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Now
Operational
(12 May 2008) Boeing today announced that the U.S. Air
Force has placed the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into
operation over the Pacific region.
Lockheed
Martin Submits Bid For U.S. Air Force Space Situational Awareness
Program
(13 May 2008) Lockheed Martin today announced that it has
submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the Self-Awareness Space
Situational Awareness (SASSA) program.
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find That Universe Shines Twice As
Bright
(15 May 2008) Astronomers from UK Universities working with
colleagues from Germany and Australia have calculated that the Universe is
actually twice as bright as previously thought.
Astronomy
NASA GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets For The
Beach
(13 May 2008) NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or
GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch.
Galaxies
A Molecular Thermometer For The
Distant Universe
(13 May 2008) Astronomers have made use of ESO's
Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon
monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a
feat that had remained elusive for 25 years.
Supernova
Discovery Of Most Recent Supernova In Our
Galaxy
(14 May 2008) The most recent supernova in our galaxy has
been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains.
Youngest Stellar Explosion In Our Galaxy
Discovered
(14 May 2008) Astronomers have found the remains of the
youngest supernova, or exploded star, in our Galaxy.
Solar System
LIDAR Imaging Detector Could Build
'Super Road Maps' Of Planets And Moons
(16 May 2008) Technology that
could someday "MapQuest" Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under
development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector
Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.
Venus
Key Molecule Discovered In Venus's
Atmosphere
(15 May 2008) Venus Express has detected the molecule
hydroxyl on another planet for the first time.
Mars
Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road To
MarsIntense Testing Paved Phoenix Road To Mars
(9 May 2008) When
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25,
few will be watching as closely as the men and women who have spent years
planning, analysing and conducting tests to prepare for the dramatic and
nerve-wracking event known as EDL -- Entry, Descent and Landing.
NASA Phoenix Mission Ready For Mars
Landing
(13 May 2008) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end
its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of
Martian soil and buried ice.
NASA Satellite
Finds Interior Of Mars Is Colder
(15 May 2008) New observations from
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of
Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.
Jupiter
Wandering Poles Left Scars On
Europa
(15 May 2008) Curved features on Jupiter's moon Europa may
indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90 deg, report scientists from
the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of
California, Santa Cruz in the 15 May issue of Nature.
Manned Space
NASA Assigns Part Of Crew For
Expedition 20 Space Station Mission
(13 May 2008) NASA and its
international partners have assigned two crew members to the Expedition 20
International Space Station mission.
New
Water Reclamation System Headed For Duty On Space Station
(12 May
2008) International Space Station crews soon will have a new water reclamation
system that will recycle wastewater, allowing up to six crew members to live
aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Launch Services
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Completes
Hot-Fire Tests On Next Generation Of Space Launch Vehicle Engine
(9
May 2008) Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. company,
has spent the last several months successfully completing a series of hot-fire
tests on heritage J-2 rocket engine components that are the basis for the new
J-2X rocket engine.
U.S. Air Force Awards
United Launch Alliance SBIRS GEO-2 Satellite Launch
(15 May 2008)
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch
Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Space
Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) GEO-2 satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved
Expendable Launch Vehicle.
Launches
Progress M-64 (ISS 29P)
Launch
Schedule
Business
Com Dev Completes Acquisition Of Passive Microwave
Devices Product Line From L-3 Communications
(9 May 2008) Com Dev
USA, LLC, a subsidiary of Com Dev International Ltd., today announced that it
has closed its previously announced US$12.2 million acquisition of the Passive
Microwave Devices product line from L-3 Communications.
Products and Services
Sectra Launches Secure Satellite
Telephony
(13 May 2008) Sectra's Tiger system for secure voice
communications has been extended with support for the Iridium satellite
system.
Spirent Federal Announces High Dynamic
GPS/Galileo/GLONASS Simulation System
(12 May 2008) Spirent Federal
Systems, the leading provider of navigation and positioning test solutions,
announces the Spirent GSS8000 simulation system, designed for use in the most
demanding applications.
Events
SpaceOps 2008 Conference Successfully
Launched
(13 May 2008) SpaceOps 2008, the world's top conference for
spacecraft operators, launched on schedule yesterday, with senior managers
emphasising increased standardisation and the ongoing growth in global
co-operation in space.
People
Boeing Names Hoshstrasser To Lead Florida
Operations
(14 May 2008) Boeing has named Kevin Hoshstrasser site
director for its Florida Operations at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
United
Space Alliance Selects Huntsville Operations Vice President
(9 May
2008) United Space Alliance (USA) has announced the selection of Kim Doering as
Vice President for Huntsville Operations, effective May 12.
