20 January 2008
Satcoms
Australian Satellite
Communications Chooses iDirect Platform To Expand Services Into Southeast Asia,
North And South Pacific
Encore Networks
And Mobil Satellite Technologies Partner To Deliver Broadband Satellite SCADA
Solutions
Hughes Mobile IP Terminal Key
To CNN's Emmy Winning Satellite Newsgathering Solution
iDirect Platform Selected By Telefonos Del Norte
To Power Broadband Network In Central America
Microspace Achieves Significant Digital Cinema
Milestones In 2007 And Expects Continued Growth In 2008
Orbcomm Announces Central American Expansion With
Licenses In El Salvador, Guatemala, And Panama
Satellite Broadband Service Astra2Connect Expands
To France And Italy
Broadcast
Boeing Awarded Contract For Direct-To-Home
Entertainment Satellite
Earth
Observation
NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves In Science
Community
Navigation
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Completes
On-Orbit Deployment Of Modernised GPS Satellite In Record
Time
Military
Space
Globecomm Systems Receives Contract Modification
From NATO Valued At US$ 4.6 Million For GPS-Based Force Tracking
System
U.S. Air Force Selects Harris
Corporation For US$ 410 Million Network And Space Operations And Maintenance
Program
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find Record-Old Cosmic
Explosion
LIGO Sheds Light On Cosmic
Event
Physicists Uncover New Solution
For Cosmic Collisions
Astronomy
SOFIA Completes Closed-Door Test
Flights
Supernova
Supernova Remnants Dance In The
LMC
Sun
Ulysses Spacecraft Flies
Over Sun's North Pole
Moon
NASA's Quest To Find Water On The Moon Moves
Closer To Launch
Mercury
BepiColombo Industrial Contract Signed
Brown Planetary Geologists Lend Expertise To NASA
Mercury Mission
NASA Messenger's First
Look At Mercury's Previously Unseen Side
Earth
NASA's THEMIS ATK-Built Satellites Complete First
Year
Mars
Ice Clouds Put Mars In
The Shade
Microgravity
Spacehab And NASA Co-operating On Space Act
Agreement For Use Of Space Station To Process Microgravity
Products
Manned
Space
NASA Announces Study Proposal On Design Of Human
Lunar Lander
Russian Fuel Flows In Jules
Verne's Veins
Technology
TacSat-2's Milestone Mission Advanced Responsive
Space Concept
Launch
Services
Ariane 5 Is Readied For Its February Launch With
The Automated Transfer Vehicle
Arianespace To Launch Yahsat 1A Satellite For
United Arab Emirates
Spacehab Subsidiary
Wins NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Contract
Launch Services - Thuraya
Sea Launch Begins New Countdown For
Thuraya-3 Launch
Sea Launch Delivers
Thuraya-3 Satellite to Orbit
Boeing
Receives Signals From Thuraya-3 Commercial Satellite Following
Launch
In
Orbit
China's Anti-Satellite Test: One Year Later -
Troubling Aftermath
Integral Systems
Awarded Contract For GPS Next Generation Control
Segment
Launches
Thuraya 3
Launch
Schedule
Products and
Services
Stratos Introduces New SCADA VSAT Service For Oil,
Gas And Utility Markets
People
CapRock Appoints Ron Long As Vice President Of
Global Engineering
Satcoms
Australian Satellite
Communications Chooses iDirect Platform To Expand Services Into Southeast Asia,
North And South Pacific
(13 January 2008) (iDirect), a company of VT
Systems Inc (VT Systems) and a world leader in satellite-based IP
communications technology, announced that Australian Satellite Communications
will install an iDirect 5IF satellite hub on the US west coast to expand its
services in the Asia Pacific market.
Encore Networks And Mobil Satellite Technologies
Partner To Deliver Broadband Satellite SCADA Solutions
(14 January
2008) Encore Networks today announced that Mobil Satellite Technologies has
selected Encore's Bandit line of environmentally hardened VPN routers for their
satellite network solutions aimed at the public utilities market.
Hughes
Mobile IP Terminal Key To CNN's Emmy Winning Satellite Newsgathering
Solution
(15 January 2008) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global
leader in broadband satellite networks and solutions, announced today that its
9201 mobile satellite IP terminal, which operates over the Inmarsat BGAN
(Broadband Global Area Network) system, is part of the CNN satellite
newsgathering solution honoured by the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences.
iDirect Platform Selected By
Telefonos Del Norte To Power Broadband Network In Central
America
(15 January 2008) iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT
Systems Inc (VT Systems) and a world leader in satellite-based IP
communications technology, announced that Telefonos del Norte has selected its
satellite communications platform as the standard for a new high-speed, cost
effective broadband service for consumers and businesses across Central
America.
Microspace Achieves Significant
Digital Cinema Milestones In 2007 And Expects Continued Growth In
2008
(14 January 2008) Microspace Communications Corporation
(Microspace), the leading distributor of digital cinema via satellite, saw an
exciting year of firsts and milestones in 2007.
Orbcomm Announces Central American Expansion With
Licenses In El Salvador, Guatemala, And Panama
(11 January 2008)
Orbcomm, announced today that new regulatory approvals have been issued
allowing market entry for Orbcomm low earth orbit satellite services in El
Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama.
Satellite Broadband Service Astra2Connect Expands
To France And Italy
(15 January 2008) SES Astra, an SES company, has
signed further contracts to roll-out its satellite broadband service
Astra2Connect also in France and Italy.
Broadcast
Boeing Awarded Contract For Direct-To-Home
Entertainment Satellite
(14 January 2008) The Boeing Company has
been awarded a contract to build a commercial satellite for ProtoStar
Ltd.
Earth
Observation
NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves In Science
Community
(17 January 2008) A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis
has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems,
and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami.
Navigation
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin
Team Completes On-Orbit Deployment Of Modernised GPS Satellite In Record
Time
(16 January 2008) The modernised Global Positioning System
Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 20, 2007,
has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users
around the globe, following a record-setting on-orbit deployment by a joint
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team.
Military Space
Globecomm Systems Receives Contract Modification
From NATO Valued At US$ 4.6 Million For GPS-Based Force Tracking
System
(14 January 2008) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading provider
of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services on a
global basis, today announced that the Company has received a contract
modification from NATO valued at US$ 4.6 million to extend communications
services and on site support for the Company's previously deployed GPS-Based
Force Tracking System (FTS).
U.S. Air
Force Selects Harris Corporation For US$ 410 Million Network And Space
Operations And Maintenance Program
(15 January 2008) Harris
Corporation, an international communications and information technology
company, has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for the Network and Space
Operations and Maintenance (NSOM) program.
Astrophysics
Astronomers Find Record-Old Cosmic
Explosion
(12 January 2008) Using the powerful one-two combo of
NASA's Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers from a number of
institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have detected a mysterious type of
cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before.
LIGO Sheds Light On Cosmic Event
(12
January 2008) An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one
previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma-ray burst
that occurred last winter.
Physicists
Uncover New Solution For Cosmic Collisions
(17 January 2008) It
turns out that our math teachers were right: being able to solve problems
without a calculator does come in handy in the "real"
world.
Astronomy
SOFIA Completes Closed-Door Test
Flights
(16 January 2008) NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has passed a significant mission
milestone.
Supernova
Supernova Remnants Dance In The LMC
(12
January 2008) The Gemini South Multi-Object Spectograph (GMOS) recently
captured a dramatic image of a vast cloud complex named DEM L316 located in the
Large Magellanic Cloud.
Sun
Ulysses Spacecraft Flies Over Sun's North
Pole
(14 January 2008) The Ulysses spacecraft today is making a rare
flyby of the sun's north pole.
Moon
NASA's Quest To Find Water On The Moon Moves
Closer To Launch
(14 January 2008) Cameras and sensors that will
look for the presence of water on the moon have completed validation tests and
been shipped to the manufacturer of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing
Satellite.
Mercury
BepiColombo Industrial Contract
Signed
(18 January 2008) The industrial development of BepiColombo,
Europe's first mission to Mercury, has been officially kicked off.
Brown Planetary Geologists Lend Expertise To NASA
Mercury Mission
(14 January 2008) What lies on the uncharted side of
mysterious Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system?
NASA Messenger's First Look At Mercury's
Previously Unseen Side
(15 January 2008) When Mariner 10 flew past
Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the same hemisphere was in sunlight
during each encounter.
Earth
NASA's THEMIS ATK-Built Satellites Complete First
Year
(15 January 2008) Alliant Techsystems reported today that the
constellation of five micro satellites it built for NASA's THEMIS (Time History
of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission successfully
completed its initial Coast Phase science operations.
Mars
Ice Clouds Put Mars In The Shade
(16
January 2008) Until now, Mars has generally been regarded as a desert world,
where a visiting astronaut would be surprised to see clouds scudding across the
orange sky.
Microgravity
Spacehab And NASA Co-operating On Space Act
Agreement For Use Of Space Station To Process Microgravity
Products
(16 January 2008) Spacehab Incorporated, a provider of
commercial space services, today announced receipt of a letter from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeking to enter into
discussions with the Company regarding development and co-operation for usage
of the International Space Station (ISS), a designated U.S. National
Laboratory, for research, development, and industrial processing
purposes.
Manned
Space
NASA Announces Study Proposal On Design Of Human
Lunar Lander
(15 January 2008) NASA's Constellation Program has
released a broad agency announcement for study proposals to evaluate human
landing craft concepts for exploring the moon.
Russian Fuel Flows In Jules Verne's
Veins
(14 January 2008) Fuelling of the Jules Verne Automated
Transfer Vehicle has started at Europe's Spaceport.
Technology
TacSat-2's Milestone Mission
Advanced Responsive Space Concept
(17 January 2008) After completing
its historic, one-year experimental mission, the U.S. Air Force's TacSat-2
microsatellite ceased operations on Dec. 21, 2007.
Launch Services
Ariane 5 Is Readied For Its February Launch With
The Automated Transfer Vehicle
(17 January 2008) The launch vehicle
for Arianespace's upcoming milestone mission has completed its basic buildup at
the Spaceport in French Guiana as preparations move ahead for Ariane 5's first
ever flight with a human-rated payload.
Arianespace To Launch Yahsat 1A Satellite For
United Arab Emirates
(16 January 2008) Arianespace has been chosen
to launch the Yahsat 1A communications satellite built by Astrium and Thales
Alenia Space for operator Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc
(Yahsat) of the United Arab Emirates.
Spacehab Subsidiary Wins NASA Orbiting Carbon
Observatory Contract
(17 January 2008) Spacehab, Incorporated, a
provider of commercial space services, today announced that its Astrotech Space
Operations subsidiary has won an additional fully funded task order under the
recently awarded Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery,
indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
Launch Services - Thuraya
Sea Launch Begins New Countdown
For Thuraya-3 Launch
(12 January 2008) The Sea Launch team has
arrived at its launch site on the Equator and initiated a new 72-hour
countdown, in preparation for the launch of the Thuraya-3 mobile communications
satellite on Tuesday, January 15.
Sea
Launch Delivers Thuraya-3 Satellite to Orbit
(15 January 2008) Sea
Launch successfully launched the Thuraya-3 mobile communications satellite
today with a perfect flight of the Zenit-3SL vehicle.
Boeing Receives Signals From Thuraya-3 Commercial
Satellite Following Launch
(15 January 2008) Boeing has acquired the
first signals from the Thuraya-3 Geo-mobile satellite following today's launch
aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket, indicating that the Boeing-built
spacecraft for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company is healthy and
operating as designed.
In
Orbit
China's Anti-Satellite Test: One Year Later -
Troubling Aftermath
(11 January 2008) One year ago today, China
intentionally destroyed its own ageing weather spacecraft making use of an
anti-satellite (ASAT) device, creating in the process the most prolific amount
of orbital debris in five decades of world-wide space activities.
Integral
Systems Awarded Contract For GPS Next Generation Control Segment
(17
January 2008) Integral Systems, Inc. today announced the award by Northrop
Grumman Corporation of a Phase A contract to begin development of the GPS OCX
(Next Generation Control Segment) satellite command and control
system.
Launches
Thuraya 3
Launch
Schedule
Products and
Services
Stratos Introduces New SCADA VSAT Service For Oil,
Gas And Utility Markets
(15 January 2008) Stratos Global Corp., the
leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications
solutions, today introduced its DataSat II shared-hub VSAT service to support
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) applications for U.S. upstream
oil, gas and utility companies.
People
CapRock Appoints Ron Long As Vice President Of
Global Engineering
(15 January 2008) CapRock Communications, a
global provider of satellite communications to harsh and remote environments,
has appointed Ron Long as VP of global engineering.
