2 March 2008
Satcoms
Boeing Satellites Reach
2,500 Years Of Accumulated Services
Eutelsat Awards W3B Telecom Satellite To Thales
Alenia Space
Eutelsat Commissions New W3B
Satellite From Thales Alenia Space
Fuelcast
Media Network, Inc. And Spacenet To Offer New Digital Media Services Using
Advanced Satellite Technology
Hughes
Continues Broadband Satellite Market Leadership With 1.5 Million VSAT Terminals
Shipped
iDirect, Sea Tel Integrate
Technologies To Extend Intelsat's Global Maritime Broadband Service
iDirect Validates DVB-S2 Evolution Platform
Performance Using Telesat Satellite
Intelsat, iDirect And World Vision To Connect The Most
Remote Regions Of The World
Intelsat
Introduces Innovative Solution For Rural Cellular Backhaul Services
Intelsat Selects Hughes To Power Ku-band Maritime
Service
RaySat Antenna Systems Partners With
Fox News For On The Go News Gathering Capabilities
SES New Skies Contracts NSS-14 With Space
Systems/Loral
SISLink And Intelsat Enter
U.S. Alliance To Launch HD-Ready Service For SNG Operators
Space Systems/Loral Selected To Provide Largest, Most
Powerful Satellite In SES Fleet
Thales
Alenia Space Delivered Star One C2 Satellite To Kourou Launch Site
Thales Alenia Space Transferred Turksat 3A Satellite
To Its Launch Site In Kourou
Vizada To
Support Télécoms Sans Frontières In 2008 Humanitarian
Missions
Wegener Teams With ViaSat To
Support Video Multicasts Over VSAT Network
Broadcast
DirecTV To Launch Gospel Music Channel On March
19
French Digital Terrestrial Free-TV TNSAT
Already Reaches 350,000 Households
Russian
TV Times Selects Intelsat For Program Distribution Launch Into Europe
ViewAfrica Extends Contract With Intelsat To Increase
Its Channel Offering
Earth
Observation
Ball Aerospace Completes Successful OMPS Milestone
For NPOESS Preparatory Project
Final
Acceptance Of GMV's FocusLEO For A NASA-JPL Mission
ITT Delivers Imaging Payload For Worldview-2
Satellite
NASA Instrument Selected For
Multi-Agency Satellite Mission
Raytheon
Completes First Phase Of Communications Upgrade For NPOESS In
Antarctica
Space Sentinels: New 'Tools' In
Space To Improve European Environment And Security
Policies
Navigation
Astrium Services And Allsat Form JV For European
Navigation And Positioning Services
Boeing
GPS Ground Control System Keeps Navigation Satellites
Operational
Tracking
Maverick Helicopters To Equip Fleet With OuterLink
Satellite-Based Mobile Asset Management Solution
Military Space
AF-Tested Navy Standard Missile
Destroys Errant Satellite
ATK Played
Pivotal Role In The U.S. Navy's Successful Shoot Down Of A Disabled
Satellite
Lockheed Martin Completes
Rigorous Test Of First Advanced Military Communications Satellite
NAVAIR Purchases Iridium Repeater System HeliSAT3
Test Article From Echo SatCom
Raytheon
Missile And Radar Played Critical Roles In Satellite Intercept
Satellite Debris Analysis Indicates Hydrazine Tank
Hit
Astrophysics
U.S. Experiment Takes The Lead In The Competitive
Race To Find Dark Matter
Astronomy
Edinburgh Astronomers Deliver 'Origins'
Camera
ITT Wins 7 NASA Strategic Missions
Concept Study Awards
Spitzer's Eyes Perfect
For Spotting Diamonds In The Sky
Stars
Small "Helper" Stars Needed For Formation Of Massive
Stars, UC Berkeley, Princeton Researchers Report
Pulsars
Jekyll-Hyde Neutron Star Discovered By
Researchers
Moon
NASA's Newest Concept Vehicle Takes Off-Roading Out
Of This World
NASA Team Demonstrates Robot
Technology For Moon Exploration
NASA Views
Landing Site Through Eyes Of Future Moon Crew
Northrop Grumman Integrating LCROSS Instruments Onto
NASA Spacecraft
UA Scientists, Engineers
Join Raytheon, Carnegie Mellon In Bid For Google Lunar X
PRIZE
Mars
Mars Express One Of Three
Orbiters Preparing For Phoenix Landing
Spacecraft At Mars Prepare To Welcome New Kid On The
Block
SpaceDev To Produce Gear Boxes For
NASA Mars Science Laboratory
Saturn
New Theory Sheds Light On Space
Enigma
Asteroids
SpaceDev And SEI Win International Asteroid Mission
Design Contest
Manned
Space
NASA Gives "Go" For Space Shuttle Launch On March
11
Unique Three-Way Partnership For ATV
Ground Control
Space
Tourism
Space Tourism To Rocket In This Century, Researchers
Predict
Technology
Orbital Awarded Contract For F6 Satellite Program By
DARPA
Space Systems/Loral And Northrop
Grumman Agree To Pursue Satellite Opportunities
Launch Services
Ariane 5's Final Assembly Is
Completed For Next Month's Mission With The Automated Transfer
Vehicle
Arianespace Prepares For Its First
Two Ariane 5 Missions In 2008
First Firing
Of European Staged-Combustion Demonstration Engine
ILS Proton To Launch S2M Satellite For Mobile TV
Service In Middle East & North Africa
Jules Verne ATV Atop Launcher
Rocket Hardware Arrivals At Sea Launch Home
Port
Sea Launch Signs With Intelsat For Two
Land Launch Missions
Reports
Updated Frost & Sullivan Research Further
Validates Reliability Of Iridium Service Over
Competitors
Business
AAE Systems, Inc. Opens Office In India
Liberty Media Completes Acquisition Of Largest Stake
In DirecTV
SSC Opens Office In
China
Products and
Services
Hughes Introduces New WAN Optimisation And
Application Acceleration Technology
Integral Systems Eases Customer Management Of
Satellite Ground Systems
New iDirect
Service For Asia Pacific Region And Maritime Users
RaySat Antenna Systems' StealthRay Awarded FCC
License
Stratos Introduces Global Maritime
Satellite Service
UDcast Accelerates
Satellite's Role In The Delivery Of Emerging Technologies At Satellite
2008
Training
GVF & SatProf Launch New Online Course:
"Introduction To Satellite Communications"
ND SatCom Joins GVF's VSAT Installer Certification
Training Program
People
Intelsat Announces Two Senior Level
Appointments
Satcoms
Boeing Satellites Reach
2,500 Years Of Accumulated Services
(27 February 2008) The Boeing
Company today announced that its more than 260 commercial and civil satellites
have achieved a total of 2,500 years of service.
Eutelsat Awards W3B Telecom Satellite To Thales
Alenia Space
(26 February 2008) Thales Alenia Space announced today
the signature of a contract with Eutelsat Communications, one of the world's
leading satellite operators, to manufacture and deliver Eutelsat's W3B
communications satellite.
Eutelsat
Commissions New W3B Satellite From Thales Alenia Space
(26 February
2008) Eutelsat Communications, one of the world's leading satellite operators,
today announced that Thales Alenia Space has been commissioned to build the W3B
satellite which will provide Eutelsat with significant new capacity for
broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband services.
Fuelcast Media Network, Inc. And Spacenet To Offer
New Digital Media Services Using Advanced Satellite Technology
(25
February 2008) Spacenet Inc., a leading provider of advanced satellite
networking services for enterprise and government, announced today that it is
teaming with Fuelcast Media Network, Inc. to offer new digital media services
to gas and convenience stores using advanced satellite technology.
Hughes Continues Broadband Satellite Market
Leadership With 1.5 Million VSAT Terminals Shipped
(25 February
2008) Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband
satellite network solutions and services, today announced that it has now
shipped cumulatively over 1.5 million broadband satellite VSAT terminals
world-wide, demonstrating its continuing market leadership in the global VSAT
market.
iDirect, Sea Tel Integrate
Technologies To Extend Intelsat's Global Maritime Broadband
Service
(26 February 2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading
provider of commercial satellite services, Sea Tel Inc., the leading provider
of marine stabilised antenna systems for satellite communications and satellite
television at sea, and iDirect Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems),
a leading provider of satellite-based IP communications technology, today
jointly announced a product enhancement of Intelsat's Network Broadband Global
Maritime service that will enable a broader sector to take advantage of
communication services at sea.
iDirect
Validates DVB-S2 Evolution Platform Performance Using Telesat
Satellite
(25 February 2008) iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of
VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) and a world leader in satellite-based IP
communications technology, announced today that it has successfully tested the
commercial version of its DVB-S2 Evolution platform simulating a live customer
environment.
Intelsat, iDirect And World
Vision To Connect The Most Remote Regions Of The World
(25 February
2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite
services, and iDirect Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc. (VT Systems), a
leading provider of satellite-based IP communications technology, today jointly
announced the launch of World Vision's global network, SandukaNet.
Intelsat Introduces Innovative Solution For Rural
Cellular Backhaul Services
(26 February 2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the
world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, today announced the
launch of Mobile Reach, an innovative solution for wireless operators enabling
them to cost-effectively extend cellular networks to rural areas and sparsely
populated regions thereby increasing teledensity.
Intelsat Selects Hughes To Power Ku-band Maritime
Service
(26 February 2008) Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global
leader in broadband satellite network solutions and services, today announced
that Intelsat, the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services,
has selected its HX broadband satellite platform for a new regional Ku-band
broadband maritime service.
RaySat Antenna
Systems Partners With Fox News For On The Go News Gathering
Capabilities
(25 February 2008) RaySat Antenna Systems LLC (RAS), a
leading provider of low-profile, in-motion two-way satellite antennas and
communications solutions, today announced that Fox News has selected and
deployed the RAS StealthRay mobile satellite two-way antenna system to enable
its mobile news crews to transmit content while on the move.
SES New Skies Contracts NSS-14 With Space
Systems/Loral
(27 February 2008) SES New Skies, an SES company
announces that it has contracted Space Systems/Loral (SSL), a subsidiary of
Loral Space & Communications, for the procurement of NSS-14, a satellite
designed to serve the growing needs of SES New Skies customers.
SISLink And Intelsat Enter U.S. Alliance To Launch
HD-Ready Service For SNG Operators
(25 February 2008) Intelsat,
Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, and
SISLink, the leading provider of satellite uplink services in Europe, today
jointly announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to launch an
HD-ready automated video delivery service for satellite newsgathering (SNG)
users in the United States.
Space
Systems/Loral Selected To Provide Largest, Most Powerful Satellite In SES
Fleet
(27 February 2008) 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 it has been awarded a contract to
manufacture a new spacecraft for SES New Skies, a subsidiary of SES.
Thales Alenia Space Delivered Star One C2 Satellite
To Kourou Launch Site
(29 February 2008) Thales Alenia Space today
announced that it has transferred the Star One C2 communication satellite to
the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
Thales Alenia Space Transferred Turksat 3A Satellite
To Its Launch Site In Kourou
(29 February 2008) Thales Alenia Space
today announced that it has transferred the Turksat 3A communications satellite
to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
Vizada To Support Télécoms Sans
Frontières In 2008 Humanitarian Missions
(28 February 2008)
Vizada, the leading provider of global satellite communications solutions with
more market share on more satellite networks than any other provider, will
support Télécoms Sans Frontières (Telecom Without Borders)
in its humanitarian missions throughout 2008.
Wegener Teams With ViaSat To Support Video Multicasts
Over VSAT Network
(27 February 2008) Wegener Corporation, a leading
provider of equipment for television, audio and data distribution networks
world-wide, today announced the operation of live video broadcasts on a VSAT
network from ViaSat Inc., showing compatibility of Wegener's video overlay
solution for VSAT networks.
Broadcast
DirecTV To Launch Gospel Music Channel On March
19
(26 February 2008) Gospel Music Channel (GMC), the nation's first
and only 24/7 all-Gospel/Christian music television network, and DirecTV, Inc.,
announced today that beginning March 19, GMC will be available to DirecTV
customers nationally on channel 338.
French
Digital Terrestrial Free-TV TNSAT Already Reaches 350,000
Households
(25 February 2008) SES Astra, an SES company, and French
pay-TV group CANAL+ have announced today that the digital terrestrial free-TV
offer TNTSAT has significantly gained reach.
Russian TV Times Selects Intelsat For Program
Distribution Launch Into Europe
(26 February 2008) Intelsat, Ltd.,
the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, today announced
that Russian TV Times (RTVT) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder
agreement on the Intelsat system, expanding its program offering into
Europe.
ViewAfrica Extends Contract With
Intelsat To Increase Its Channel Offering
(27 February 2008)
Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services,
announced today that U.K.-based ViewAfrica has contracted for additional
capacity on the Intelsat 10 satellite for increased channel
distribution.
Earth
Observation
Ball Aerospace Completes Successful OMPS Milestone
For NPOESS Preparatory Project
(27 February 2008) Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. has completed risk reduction testing of the
Protoflight Model (PFM) Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) that will fly
aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
(NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP).
Final
Acceptance Of GMV's FocusLEO For A NASA-JPL Mission
(26 February
2008) In late 2007, the acceptance tests of GMV's Flight Dynamics System (FDS)
for Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission were completed successfully at
Orbital Sciences Corporation.
ITT Delivers
Imaging Payload For Worldview-2 Satellite
(26 February 2008) ITT
Corporation today announced that its Space Systems Division based in Rochester,
N.Y. has successfully shipped the next-generation commercial imaging payload
for DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 commercial remote sensing satellite.
NASA Instrument Selected For Multi-Agency Satellite
Mission
(25 February 2008) A mission-proven satellite instrument
that collects data used to study global climate change was recently approved
for flight by NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
Raytheon Completes First Phase Of Communications
Upgrade For NPOESS In Antarctica
(27 February 2008) Raytheon Company
has achieved a significant program milestone for the National Polar-orbiting
Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by successfully completing
the first phase of a major communications upgrade for Antarctica.
Space
Sentinels: New 'Tools' In Space To Improve European Environment And Security
Policies
(28 February 2008) ESA Director General Jean-Jacques
Dordain and European Commission Director General for Enterprise & Industry
Heinz Zourek today signed in Brussels an agreement which establishes the
allocation of an EC budget of €624 million to ESA as a contribution to the
implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC).
Navigation
Astrium Services And Allsat Form
JV For European Navigation And Positioning Services
(26 February
2008) Astrium Services and Allsat GmbH network+services have created a joint
venture Axio-Net GmbH to provide precise navigation and positioning services
across Europe.
Boeing GPS Ground Control
System Keeps Navigation Satellites Operational
(26 February 2008)
Boeing today reported the continuing success of its Global Positioning
Satellite (GPS) ground control system that operates the on-orbit constellation
of 32 GPS satellites built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Tracking
Maverick Helicopters To Equip Fleet
With OuterLink Satellite-Based Mobile Asset Management Solution
(25
February 2008) OuterLink Corporation, the satellite-based mobile asset
management solutions provider, today announced that Maverick Helicopters, the
true VIP helicopter provider of Las Vegas, has selected OuterLink to equip its
fleet of 28 EC130 helicopters with satellite-based flight tracking and two-way
voice communication.
Military
Space
AF-Tested Navy Standard Missile Destroys Errant
Satellite
(22 February 2008) When Navy officials confirmed Feb. 20
that a Navy Standard Missile-3 fired from the deck of the USS Lake Erie in the
Northern Pacific hit a falling and potentially dangerous defence intelligence
satellite, some people here were particularly interested.
ATK Played Pivotal Role In The U.S. Navy's Successful
Shoot Down Of A Disabled Satellite
(27 February 2008) Alliant
Techsystems provided the Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM) and the Solid Divert
and Attitude Control System (SDACS) for a modified U.S. Navy Standard Missile-3
(SM-3) which successfully shot down a disabled U.S. government satellite on
February 20. Raytheon Company is the prime contractor.
Lockheed Martin Completes Rigorous Test Of First
Advanced Military Communications Satellite
(28 February 2008)
Lockheed Martin has successfully completed acoustic testing of the first
Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications
satellite.
NAVAIR Purchases Iridium Repeater
System HeliSAT3 Test Article From Echo SatCom
(26 February 2008)
Echo Satellite Communications, Inc., a leading global provider of wireless,
non-line-of-sight satellite communications products and services, announced
today an order from Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for a HeliSAT3
customised Iridium repeater system.
Raytheon
Missile And Radar Played Critical Roles In Satellite Intercept
(25
February 2008) Raytheon Company technology played a pivotal role in the Feb. 20
successful intercept of a non-functioning satellite.
Satellite Debris Analysis Indicates Hydrazine Tank
Hit
(25 February 2008) The Department of Defense announced today
that based on debris analysis, officials are confident the missile intercept
and destruction of a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite,
achieved the objective of destroying the hydrazine tank and reducing, if not
eliminating, the risk to people on Earth from the hazardous
chemical.
Astrophysics
U.S. Experiment Takes The Lead In The Competitive
Race To Find Dark Matter
(27 February 2008) Scientists of the
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment, including researchers from the
California Institute of Technology, today announced that they have regained the
lead in the world-wide race by a number of different research groups to find
the particles that make up dark matter.
Astronomy
Edinburgh Astronomers Deliver 'Origins'
Camera
(25 February 2008) Today (21 February 2008) the Science and
Technology Facility Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the
Royal Observatory Edinburgh shipped its biggest and most complex ever
instrument.
ITT Wins 7 NASA Strategic
Missions Concept Study Awards
(28 February 2008) ITT's Space Systems
Division has been awarded seven NASA strategic missions concept
studies.
Spitzer's Eyes Perfect For Spotting
Diamonds In The Sky
(26 February 2008) Diamonds may be rare on
Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared
eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them, say
scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field,
Calif.
Stars
Small "Helper" Stars
Needed For Formation Of Massive Stars, UC Berkeley, Princeton Researchers
Report
(27 February 2008) In order for a rare, massive star to form
inside an interstellar cloud of gas and dust, small "helper" stars about the
size of the sun must first set the stage, according to a new theory proposed by
astrophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton
University.
Pulsars
Jekyll-Hyde Neutron Star Discovered By
Researchers
(25 February 2008) NASA and McGill scientists find star
which morphs from pulsar to magnetar
Moon
NASA's Newest Concept Vehicle Takes Off-Roading Out
Of This World
(27 February 2008) In a car commercial, it would sound
odd: active suspension, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each
wheel, no doors, no windows, no seats and the only colour available is
gold.
NASA Team Demonstrates Robot
Technology For Moon Exploration
(27 February 2008) During the 3rd
Space Exploration Conference Feb. 26-28 in Denver, NASA will exhibit a robot
rover equipped with a drill designed to find water and oxygen-rich soil on the
moon.
NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes
Of Future Moon Crew
(27 February 2008) NASA has obtained the highest
resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region,
with a resolution to 20 metres per pixel.
Northrop Grumman Integrating LCROSS Instruments Onto
NASA Spacecraft
(27 February 2008) Northrop Grumman Corporation is
integrating the cameras, spectrometers and photometer comprising the nine
instrument payload for the NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing
Satellite (LCROSS) onto the spacecraft.
UA
Scientists, Engineers Join Raytheon, Carnegie Mellon In Bid For Google Lunar X
PRIZE
(25 February 2008) The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc.
announced the first ten teams in the race for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a
robotic race to the moon for US$ 30 million in prizes, at a news conference in
Mountain View, Calif., today.
Mars
Mars Express One Of Three Orbiters Preparing For
Phoenix Landing
(28 February 2008) A trio of NASA and ESA spacecraft
orbiting Mars are preparing for the 25 May arrival of NASA's Phoenix
lander.
Spacecraft At Mars Prepare To
Welcome New Kid On The Block
(28 February 2008) Three Mars
spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right
time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian
atmosphere on May 25.
SpaceDev To Produce
Gear Boxes For NASA Mars Science Laboratory
(25 February 2008)
SpaceDev, Inc. announced today that it was awarded a subcontract in support of
the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a key part of NASA's Mars Exploration
Program.
Saturn
New Theory Sheds Light On Space Enigma
(25
February 2008) An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space
from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest
moon.
Asteroids
SpaceDev And SEI Win International Asteroid Mission
Design Contest
(27 February 2008) SpaceDev, Inc. announced today
that along with teammate SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI), it has won first
place in The Planetary Society's Apophis Mission Design
Competition.
Manned
Space
NASA Gives "Go" For Space Shuttle Launch On March
11
(29 February 2008) NASA senior managers completed a review Friday
of space shuttle Endeavour's readiness for flight and selected March 11 as the
official launch date for the STS-123 mission.
Unique Three-Way Partnership For ATV Ground
Control
(26 February 2008) Shortly after its planned 8 March launch
to the ISS, ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle will make the first-ever
laser-guided docking in space.
Space Tourism
Space Tourism To Rocket In This Century, Researchers
Predict
(25 February 2008) We'll be able to "cruise" into outer
space this century, according to UD researcher Fred DeMicco, Aramark Chair in
UD's Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management
program.
Technology
Orbital Awarded Contract For F6
Satellite Program By DARPA
(27 February 2008) Orbital Sciences
Corporation, a world leader in smaller-sized civil government and national
security satellites, announced today that it has been selected by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VA, to develop a Phase 1
concept for System F6 (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying
Spacecraft united by Information eXchange).
Space Systems/Loral And Northrop Grumman Agree To
Pursue Satellite Opportunities
(27 February 2008) Northrop Grumman
Corporation and Space Systems/Loral today announced that they are pursuing a
group of initiatives that stands to broaden each company's opportunities to
provide the U.S. government with cost competitive satellite
systems.
Launch
Services
Ariane 5's Final Assembly Is Completed For Next
Month's Mission With The Automated Transfer Vehicle
(26 February
2008) The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming historic mission to service the
International Space Station is now complete following installation of the large
fairing that will protect its Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) payload during
the launcher's initial ascent.
Arianespace
Prepares For Its First Two Ariane 5 Missions In 2008
(27 February
2008) Preparations for the initial two Ariane 5 flights of 2008 are in full
swing at Europe's Spaceport as Arianespace continues to demonstrate its ability
to provide launch capacity and mission flexibility that meet customers'
needs.
First Firing Of European
Staged-Combustion Demonstration Engine
(27 February 2008) The first
hot firing test of a reduced-scale demonstration version of a staged-combustion
rocket engine has recently been achieved at the Lampoldshausen (Germany) test
facility of DLR.
ILS Proton To Launch S2M
Satellite For Mobile TV Service In Middle East & North
Africa
(26 February 2008) International Launch Services (ILS)
announced a contract today with S2M, a provider of media-rich, mobile
entertainment to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to use a Proton
Breeze M vehicle to launch the first dedicated mobile television satellite for
the MENA region.
Jules Verne ATV Atop
Launcher
(27 February 2008) Jules Verne, the first Automated
Transfer Vehicle, has been encapsulated in its huge fairing on top of the
Ariane 5 launcher.
Rocket Hardware Arrivals
At Sea Launch Home Port
(26 February 2008) Sea Launch is
implementing long-term Sea Launch contracting initiatives with Sea Launch
partner organisations for the on-time production and delivery of rocket segment
hardware to meet current and future launch opportunities.
Sea Launch Signs With Intelsat For Two Land Launch
Missions
(26 February 2008) In an agreement signed with Intelsat in
January, Sea Launch will deliver two communications satellites built by Orbital
Sciences Corporation to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
Reports
Updated Frost & Sullivan Research Further
Validates Reliability Of Iridium Service Over Competitors
(26
February 2008) Iridium Satellite is pleased to announce that Frost &
Sullivan, an independent research and consulting firm, has released an updated
report, "2008 LEO Satellite Quality of Service Comparison -- Gulf Coast
Analysis," which is a follow-up on the report issued last year entitled
"Satellite Telephone Quality of Service Comparison."
Business
AAE Systems, Inc. Opens Office In
India
(26 February 2008) AAE Systems, Inc. today announced that it
has expanded its operations with the opening of an office in India to provide
regional sales, engineering, and customer support.
Liberty Media Completes Acquisition Of Largest Stake
In DirecTV
(27 February 2008) Liberty Media Corporation announced
today that it has completed the exchange of its 16.3% stake in News Corporation
for a subsidiary of News that holds a 41% stake in The DirecTV Group, Inc.,
regional sports networks in Denver, Pittsburgh, and Seattle, and US$ 465
million of cash.
SSC Opens Office In
China
(27 February 2008) Today the Swedish Space Corporation
formally inaugurated their Representative Office in
Beijing.
Products and
Services
Hughes Introduces New WAN Optimisation And
Application Acceleration Technology
(25 February 2008) Hughes
Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a leading provider of broadband networks and
services, today announced it has added new WAN optimisation and application
acceleration capabilities to its comprehensive suite of HughesNet Managed
Network Services.
Integral Systems Eases
Customer Management Of Satellite Ground Systems
(25 February 2008)
Integral Systems, Inc., today announced the development of a new control system
feature called the Enterprise Executive Dashboard.
New iDirect Service For Asia Pacific Region And
Maritime Users
(27 February 2008) Australian Satellite
Communications (ASC) today announced a new satellite telecommunications service
across the South Pacific region.
RaySat
Antenna Systems' StealthRay Awarded FCC License
(26 February 2008)
RaySat Antenna Systems, LLC (RAS), a leading provider of innovative in-motion,
two-way satellite antennas and communications solutions, today announced that
its low-profile StealthRay antenna system has been awarded an FCC license to
provide commercial service throughout the contiguous United States
(CONUS).
Stratos Introduces Global Maritime
Satellite Service
(26 February 2008) Stratos Global Corporation, the
leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications
solutions, today announced the commercial availability of its OceanVSAT from
Stratos global maritime broadband satellite communications solution.
UDcast Accelerates Satellite's Role In The Delivery Of
Emerging Technologies At Satellite 2008
(25 February 2008) At
Satellite 2008, UDcast will launch new compression and acceleration technology
that enables satellite, fibre and WiMAX-based wide area networks to offer
unprecedented network performance and service quality
improvement.
Training
GVF & SatProf Launch New Online Course:
"Introduction To Satellite Communications"
(26 February 2008) Access
to a comprehensive understanding of satellite communications fundamentals is
being enabled through the collaboration of two leading industry organisations
on a global online training program.
ND
SatCom Joins GVF's VSAT Installer Certification Training Program
(26
February 2008) ND SatCom, an SES Astra company, announced today that it will
join the Global VSAT Forum's (GVF) VSAT Installer Certification Training
Program as knowledge provider and training host.
People
Intelsat Announces Two Senior Level
Appointments
(25 February 2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading
provider of fixed satellite services, today announced two new senior level
appointments, effective immediately.
