27 January 2008
Satcoms
C2Sat Receives First
Order For 2,4 Meter C-Band Antenna
GE-23
Satellite To Bring Affordable Internet To Pacific Islands And Provide Maritime
Services In Oceania
Gilat Chosen By
India's Bharti Airtel To Deliver A Broadband Satellite Network Comprising More
Than 13,000 Sites
Mobile Satellite
Ventures Plans Extension Of Current Generation Satellite Services Through 2011
On Forthcoming Next-Generation Communications Network
Rede Smart Chooses Hughes To Provide Broadband
Satellite Services To Its Retail Stores Throughout Brazil
Swe-Dish Partners With Adisam Telecom S.A. To
Deliver Mobile Satellite Terminals To The Eastern European Market
Thales Alenia Space Strengthens Its Leading
Position In 2007
Broadcast
Melody Zen Boosts Eutelsat's Eurobird 9 Satellite
With New HDTV Content
Turner Latin
America And Fashion TV Sign Distribution Accord For Latin
America
Earth
Observation
New Radar Satellite Technique Sheds Light On Ocean
Current Dynamics
TerraSAR-X Goes Into
Operation
Navigation
Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellites Pass 75 Year
Mark Of Combined On-Orbit Operations
Tracking
NOAA Satellites Help Rescue 353 People In
2007
Military
Space
Integral Systems Announces Transition Of WGS
Satellite Operations To The CCS-C System
Astrophysics
X-Rays Betray Giant Particle Accelerator In The
Sky
Astronomy
Novel X-Ray Optics
Development
Stars
Neutron Stars Can Be More Massive, While Black
Holes Are More Rare, Arecibo Observatory Finds
Black Holes
Neutron Stars Can Be More Massive, While Black
Holes Are More Rare, Arecibo Observatory Finds
Solar System
New Discovery On Magnetic Reconnection To Impact
Future Space Missions
Moon
NGC-Built Antennas Helping Provide Data On Moon's
Thermal History For Japan's KAGUYA (SELENE) Mission
Mercury
Counting Mercury's Craters
Mars
Orbiting Camera Details Dramatic
Wind Action On Mars
Jupiter
Giant Storm Eruption At Jupiter Unearths A Buried
Past
The Mystery Of Jupiter's Jets
Uncovered
Asteroids
Asteroid To Make Rare Close Flyby Of Earth January
29
Comets
Stardust Comet Dust
Resembles Asteroid Materials
Exobiology
Arecibo Telescope Finds Critical Ingredients For
The Soup Of Life In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Space Tourism
Pratt & Whitney Canada Joins
Virgin Galactic To Celebrate Unveiling Of SpaceshipTwo And WhiteKnightTwo
Models
Space Adventures' Orbital
Spaceflight Client, Richard Garriott, Begins Cosmonaut Training For October
Spaceflight Launch
Virgin Galactic
Unveils Spaceship Designs
Technology
Concurrent Engineering Methodologies Applied To
Anomaly Treatment
SpaceDev To Produce
Electromechanical Products For Space Systems/Loral
Launch Services - TecSAR
Israel Aerospace Industries'
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite Was Successfully Launched
Into Orbit On An Indian PSLV Launcher
PSLV Successfully Launches Israeli
Satellite
Northrop Grumman Congratulates
Israel Aerospace Industries On Successful TECSAR Satellite
Launch
Launches
TecSAR (Polaris)
Launch
Schedule
Reports
New Video Channels Continue To Be Main Growth
Driver For Satellite Capacity
Products and Services
Stratos Introduces Iridium Online
Management Service
People
Raytheon Space And Airborne Systems Names W.
Timothy Carey Vice President For Intelligence, Surveillance And Reconnaissance
Systems
Satcoms
C2Sat Receives First
Order For 2,4 Meter C-Band Antenna
(24 January 2008) C2SAT receives
its first order of 5-units for the new 2.4 meter C-band antenna from its
distribution partner in Australia, Maritime Communication, for installation
with a major customer in Southeast Asia.
GE-23 Satellite To Bring Affordable Internet To
Pacific Islands And Provide Maritime Services In Oceania
(14 January
2008) Hawaii Pacific Teleport announced today that it had signed a two year
contract with Pacific Teleport to provide satellite delivered services to
Pacific Islands.
Gilat Chosen By India's
Bharti Airtel To Deliver A Broadband Satellite Network Comprising More Than
13,000 Sites
(21 January 2008) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. today
announced that it has received a new order from Bharti Airtel, India's leading
telecommunications operator, to supply a broadband satellite network which
comprises more than 13,000 SkyEdge IP VSATs.
Mobile Satellite Ventures Plans Extension Of
Current Generation Satellite Services Through 2011 On Forthcoming
Next-Generation Communications Network
(21 January 2008) Mobile
Satellite Ventures (MSV) today announced plans to extend its current generation
network voice and mobile data services through 2011 on its next generation
hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated to be launched in
2010.
Rede Smart Chooses Hughes To Provide
Broadband Satellite Services To Its Retail Stores Throughout
Brazil
(21 January 2008) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global
leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, announced today that it
has been selected by Rede Smart, a Martins Group company, to provide HughesNet
broadband satellite managed network services to Rede Smart's 930 grocery stores
throughout Brazil.
Swe-Dish Partners With
Adisam Telecom S.A. To Deliver Mobile Satellite Terminals To The Eastern
European Market
(23 January 2008) Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB, a
DataPath company, has received and rapidly delivered on an order from its
Eastern European partner Adisam Telecom S.A., Romania's largest private
satellite operator, for a number of IPT-i Suitcase satellite
terminals.
Thales Alenia Space
Strengthens Its Leading Position In 2007
(24 January 2008) Thales
Alenia Space won five contracts in 2007 to build seven communications and
observation satellites, and formed new strategic
partnerships.
Broadcast
Melody Zen Boosts Eutelsat's Eurobird 9 Satellite
With New HDTV Content
(23 January 2008) Melody Zen, a new concept in
well-being television has chosen the Eurobird 9 satellite of Eutelsat
Communications to deliver its signal across Europe in Full HD as well as
standard definition in 16/9 format.
Turner
Latin America And Fashion TV Sign Distribution Accord For Latin
America
(21 January 2008) Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Latin
America, Inc. has reached a long-term distribution, advertising sales and
trademark agreement with Fashion TV, the first and only world-wide channel
entirely dedicated to fashion, beauty, design and
lifestyle.
Earth
Observation
New Radar Satellite Technique Sheds Light On Ocean
Current Dynamics
(24 January 2008) Ocean surface currents have long
been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and
transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain
unknown.
TerraSAR-X Goes Into
Operation
(21 January 2008) The German radar satellite, TerraSAR-X,
went into operation on 7 January 2008.
Navigation
Lockheed Martin-Built GPS
Satellites Pass 75 Year Mark Of Combined On-Orbit Operations
(23
January 2008) The Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR and IIR-M satellite
constellation, designed and built by Lockheed Martin to provide significantly
improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users world-wide,
has accumulated over 75 years of successful on-orbit
operations.
Tracking
NOAA Satellites Help Rescue 353 People In
2007
(21 January 2008) Armed with personal locator beacons to send a
distress signal, 353 people were rescued in the United States and its
surrounding waters in 2007 from potentially life-threatening
emergencies.
Military
Space
Integral Systems Announces Transition Of WGS
Satellite Operations To The CCS-C System
(23 January 2008) Integral
Systems, Inc., today announced the onschedule Handover of satellite bus
operations for the initial WGS [Wideband Global SATCOM (Satellite
Communications)] satellite to the CCS-C (Command and Control System -
Consolidated) baseline. WGS is the third MILSATCOM (Military Satellite
Communications) program to successfully transition onto the CCS-C
baseline.
Astrophysics
X-Rays Betray Giant Particle Accelerator In The
Sky
(24 January 2008) ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory,
Integral, has made the first unambiguous discovery of highly energetic X-rays
coming from a galaxy cluster.
Astronomy
Novel X-Ray Optics Development
(22
January 2008) X-rays with energies between 1 and 10 keV can only be reflected
with high efficiency by glancing incidence angle reflections; therefore many
concentric mirror shells have to be nested to form an X-ray telescope with a
large reflecting area.
Stars
Neutron Stars Can Be More Massive, While Black
Holes Are More Rare, Arecibo Observatory Finds
(21 January 2008)
Neutron stars and black holes aren't all they've been thought to
be.
Black
Holes
Neutron Stars Can Be More Massive, While Black
Holes Are More Rare, Arecibo Observatory Finds
(21 January 2008)
Neutron stars and black holes aren't all they've been thought to
be.
Solar
System
New Discovery On Magnetic Reconnection To Impact
Future Space Missions
(23 January 2008) ESA's Cluster mission has,
for the first time, observed the extent of the region that triggers magnetic
reconnection, and it is much larger than previously
thought.
Moon
NGC-Built Antennas
Helping Provide Data On Moon's Thermal History For Japan's KAGUYA (SELENE)
Mission
(22 January 2008) Four specialised antennas built by
Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) are functioning as expected after deploying successfully onboard the
SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE), Japan's first large
lunar explorer.
Mercury
Counting Mercury's Craters
(24 January
2008) On January 14, 2008, MESSENGER flew by Mercury and snapped images of a
large portion of the surface that had not been previously seen by
spacecraft.
Mars
Orbiting Camera Details Dramatic Wind Action On
Mars
(23 January 2008) Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere with
less than one-percent the surface pressure of Earth, which challenges
scientists to explain complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented
detail in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Jupiter
Giant Storm Eruption At Jupiter
Unearths A Buried Past
(24 January 2008) Scientists around the globe
have observed an astonishing and rare change in Jupiter's atmosphere -- a huge
disturbance churning in the middle northern latitudes of the planet as two
giant storms erupted.
The Mystery Of
Jupiter's Jets Uncovered
(24 January 2008) At the end of March 2007,
scientists all over the world observed with surprise and awe a rare change in
the atmosphere of Jupiter.
Asteroids
Asteroid To Make Rare Close Flyby Of Earth January
29
(24 January 2008) Scientists are monitoring the orbit of asteroid
2007 TU24.
Comets
Stardust Comet Dust Resembles Asteroid
Materials
(24 January 2008) Contrary to expectations for a small icy
body, much of the comet dust returned by the Stardust mission formed very close
to the young sun and was altered from the solar system's early
materials.
Exobiology
Arecibo Telescope Finds Critical
Ingredients For The Soup Of Life In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
(21
January 2008) Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and
hydrogen cyanide, two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids, in a
galaxy some 250 million light years away.
Space Tourism
Pratt & Whitney Canada Joins Virgin Galactic
To Celebrate Unveiling Of SpaceshipTwo And WhiteKnightTwo Models
(23
January 2008) Pratt & Whitney Canada today joins Virgin Galactic in New
York City to unveil detailed scale models of the world's first commercial
passenger suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, together with the launch
aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo.
Space
Adventures' Orbital Spaceflight Client, Richard Garriott, Begins Cosmonaut
Training For October Spaceflight Launch
(21 January 2008) Space
Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced
today that famed game developer Richard Garriott, son of former NASA astronaut
Owen Garriott, has begun training at the Yuri Gagarin Training Center in Star
City, Russia in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station
(ISS) currently planned for October.
Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceship
Designs
(23 January 2008) Virgin Galactic today unveiled the design
of its new, environmentally benign, space launch system based on the X Prize
winning technology of SpaceShipOne, which successfully flew into space for the
third time in October 2004 and won the US$ 10m Ansari X
Prize.
Technology
Concurrent Engineering
Methodologies Applied To Anomaly Treatment
(24 January 2008)
Concurrent Engineering (CE) has widely proven its efficiency and advantages,
especially for the preliminary phases of a project, by maximising the number of
activities running in parallel.
SpaceDev
To Produce Electromechanical Products For Space Systems/Loral
(24
January 2008) SpaceDev, Inc. announced today that it recently signed a
long-term purchase agreement with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to provide
mission-critical flight hardware components for the 1300-Series spacecraft
platform.
Launch Services -
TecSAR
Israel Aerospace Industries' Advanced Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite Was Successfully Launched Into Orbit On An
Indian PSLV Launcher
(21 January 2008) Itzhak Nissan, IAI's
President & CEO said: "IAI's management is very proud of this achievement,
which serves as additional proof of IAI's great technological capabilities, and
of IAI's leadership in the Israeli space industry.
PSLV Successfully Launches Israeli
Satellite
(21 January 2008) Antrix Corporation is happy to announce
that its second full-fledged commercial launch has been successfully completed
today.
Northrop Grumman Congratulates
Israel Aerospace Industries On Successful TECSAR Satellite
Launch
(22 January 2008) Northrop Grumman Corporation congratulates
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on the successful launch Monday of the TECSAR
Satellite System.
Launches
TecSAR (Polaris)
Launch
Schedule
Reports
New Video Channels Continue To Be Main Growth
Driver For Satellite Capacity
(24 January 2008) In its recently
released study covering the entire commercial satellite transponder leasing
sector, NSR projects that world-wide carriage of new standard definition (SD)
and high definition (HD) channels for all categories of television services
will account for between 75% and 85% of C- and Ku-band transponder demand
growth in most regions around the world.
Products and Services
Stratos Introduces Iridium
Online Management Service
(24 January 2008) Stratos Global
Corporation, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site
remote communications solutions, today introduced Stratos Dashboard for
Iridium, an online service that enables its Iridium customers to manage their
global satellite phone service.
People
Raytheon Space And Airborne Systems Names W.
Timothy Carey Vice President For Intelligence, Surveillance And Reconnaissance
Systems
(24 January 2008) Raytheon Company's Space and Airborne
Systems business has named W. Timothy Carey vice president for its
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems organisation.
