9 March 2008
Satcoms
Children's National Medical
Center Implements International Telemedicine Network With Intelsat,
iDirect
Hughes Enables A Digital Signage
Solution For Carrefour In Brazil
iDirect To
Showcase DVB-S2/ACM Platform Demo At CABSAT 2008 Conference And
Exhibition
Mobile Satellite Ventures Selects
Axiom Systems For 4G Network Service Assembly
Satlynx Provides Lunasat With Broadband Satellite
Platform For Middle East And African Markets
Broadcast
Daystar And Satlink Join Up On AsiaSat2
RRsat Chosen By Swedish National Television (SVT) To
Transmit TV Channel Over Europe
SES New
Skies To Support 2008 Beijing Olympic Coverage Of Major International
Broadcasters
Earth
Observation
SEA Starts Work On A European Space Contract Worth
£12M
Navigation
Second Galileo Spacecraft Prepares For
Launch
Tracking
Com Dev Successfully Completes Airborne AIS
Trials
Military
Space
Globecomm Systems Awarded IDIQ Contract From The
United States Navy's SPAWAR Center
Northrop
Grumman Delivers Payload Module For 2nd EHF Military Communications
Satellite
Swe-Dish To Deliver Portable
SATCOM Terminals To U.S. Navy's SPAWAR Center Under ID/IQ Contract With
Potential Value Of US$ 175 Million
Science
JPL Helps Shoot For The Moon, Stars, Planets And
More
Astrophysics
Solitary Waves In Translation
WMAP Reveals Neutrinos, End Of Dark Ages, First
Second Of Universe
Astronomy
Mapping The Interior Of Interstellar Clouds In Great
Detail
Sun
Sun's Corona Is Both Hot And
Kinky
Moon
Ecliptic Enterprises
Corporation And NASA Ames Collaboration In Full Swing
NASA Collaborates With Astronomers In Search For Moon
Water
Venus
Mars And Venus Are Surprisingly
Similar
Mars
Liquid Water Found On Mars? Not Yet.
Mars And Venus Are Surprisingly Similar
NASA Spacecraft Photographs Avalanches On
Mars
Saturn
Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have
Rings
Extra-Solar
Planets
Alpha Centauri Should Harbour Detectable, Earth-Like
Planets, According To New Study By UC Santa Cruz
Astronomers
Manned
Space
MSU Experiments To Be Launched On Space
Shuttle
NASA Awards External Tank Contract
Modification
Traffic Jam In Space: ATV
Docking Under Tight Schedule
Technology
Boeing Among Industry Teams Selected To Design New
DARPA Space System
Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Awards F6 Satellite Program Contract To
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman Selected
For 1st Phase Of DARPA F6 Satellite Network
SpaceDev To Develop New Deployable Reflectors
Technology For AFRL
Launch
Services
First SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Remains On
Schedule For Delivery To Cape Canaveral
Glast Spacecraft Arrives In Florida To Prepare For
Launch
ILS Announces Contract To Launch Two
Sirius Satellite Radio Spacecraft On Proton Breeze M
Preparations Underway With The Star One C2 Satellite
For Ariane 5's Second Mission Of 2008
Sea
Launch Prepares For The Launch Of DirecTV 11
SpaceDev Awarded NASA Contract For New Rocket
Program
Launch Services -
ATV
Ariane 5 Is Cleared For Its March 9 History-Making
Launch With The Automated Transfer Vehicle
Successful Review For Jules Verne ATV
Launcher
Ariane 5 Moves To The Launch Pad
With Its ATV Payload For The International Space
Station
Launches
Launch
Schedule
Business
Echo Satcom Wins New Reseller Agreement For Its
SatMAX Product Line
Products
and Services
Vizada Launches Enhanced Version Skyfile Mail
Messaging Solution
Satcoms
Children's National
Medical Center Implements International Telemedicine Network With Intelsat,
iDirect
(4 March 2008) Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider
of commercial satellite services, and iDirect Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc
(VT Systems) and a leading provider of satellite-based IP communications
technology, today jointly announced that they have deployed an international
satellite-based telemedicine network to improve medical treatment processes in
the Kingdom of Morocco.
Hughes Enables A
Digital Signage Solution For Carrefour In Brazil
(3 March 2008)
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite
solutions and services, announced today that it has completed the installation
of a HughesNet Managed Service Solution connecting 108 Hypermarket store
locations of Carrefour in Brazil to deliver Carrefour TV.
iDirect To Showcase DVB-S2/ACM Platform Demo At
CABSAT 2008 Conference And Exhibition
(4 March 2008) iDirect, Inc.,
a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) and a world leader in satellite-based
IP communications technology, today announced that it will demonstrate the
capabilities of its Evolution DVB-S2/ACM (Adaptive Coding and Modulation)
platform at the CABSAT 2008 Conference and Exhibition in Dubai.
Mobile Satellite Ventures Selects Axiom Systems For 4G
Network Service Assembly
(26 February 2008) Axiom Systems today
announced that Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has selected AXIOSS and Active
Catalog for the design, assembly and delivery of new services on MSV's next
generation integrated satellite-terrestrial network.
Satlynx Provides Lunasat With Broadband Satellite
Platform For Middle East And African Markets
(3 March 2008) Satlynx,
a leading provider of satellite telecommunications, announced today the
introduction of a range of broadband services in the Middle East and African
markets though its partner Lunasat.
Broadcast
Daystar And Satlink Join Up On AsiaSat2
(4
March 2008) Daystar Television Network, the fastest growing and second largest
Christian television network in the world, has called on SatLink
Communications, the fastest growing teleport in 2007, to launch the TV channel
to SatLink's AsiaSat 2 MCPC (Multiple Channels Per Carrier) digital platform,
allowing millions of viewers across Asia to watch this leading faith-based
channel.
RRsat Chosen By Swedish National
Television (SVT) To Transmit TV Channel Over Europe
(4 March 2008)
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 SVT,
Sveriges Television (Swedish Television), Sweden's public television
broadcasting service has chosen RRsat to expand its coverage all over
Europe.
SES New Skies To Support 2008
Beijing Olympic Coverage Of Major International Broadcasters
(5
March 2008) SES New Skies, an SES company will support renowned international
broadcasters in their live coverage of the Beijing Olympics Games (August 8 -
24, 2008) with quality satellite capacity.
Earth Observation
SEA Starts Work On A European Space
Contract Worth £12M
(3 March 2008) Cohort plc, a leading
independent technical services business, is pleased to announce that one of its
subsidiary companies, SEA, has been authorised by the German satellite prime
contractor EADS Astrium GmbH, to proceed with work on a new contract that is
expected to be worth circa £12 M for the development and supply of the
BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) instrument of the EarthCARE
satellite.
Navigation
Second Galileo Spacecraft Prepares
For Launch
(6 March 2008) Yesterday, members of the media visited
ESA-ESTEC, the agency's European Research and Technology Centre, to see and
learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before
it is packed for shipping to the launch site.
Tracking
Com Dev Successfully Completes
Airborne AIS Trials
(5 March 2008) Com Dev International Ltd. today
announced that it has successfully completed the airborne validation trials of
its advanced Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver
solution.
Military
Space
Globecomm Systems Awarded IDIQ Contract From The
United States Navy's SPAWAR Center
(5 March 2008) Globecomm Systems
Inc., a leading provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure
solutions and services on a global basis, announced today that the Company and
six other companies have been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR)
Systems Center.
Northrop Grumman Delivers
Payload Module For 2nd EHF Military Communications Satellite
(4
March 2008) Northrop Grumman Corporation today delivered the payload module for
the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications
satellite ahead of schedule to the Sunnyvale, Calif., facilities of Lockheed
Martin, prime contractor for the Advanced EHF program.
Swe-Dish To Deliver Portable SATCOM Terminals To U.S.
Navy's SPAWAR Center Under ID/IQ Contract With Potential Value Of US$ 175
Million
(4 March 2008) Swe-Dish Satellite Systems, a DataPath
company, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ)
contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center to
provide portable SATCOM terminals.
Science
JPL Helps Shoot For The Moon, Stars, Planets And
More
(3 March 2008) A giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser
beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will
study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics
missions.
Astrophysics
Solitary Waves In Translation
(7 March
2008) Swooping through space are solitary waves, which in theory do not change
form or lose energy as they go along.
WMAP
Reveals Neutrinos, End Of Dark Ages, First Second Of Universe
(7
March 2008) NASA released this week five years of data collected by the
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of
the universe and its development.
Astronomy
Mapping The Interior Of Interstellar Clouds In Great
Detail
(7 March 2008) Astronomers have measured the distribution of
mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of
detail and to great depth.
Sun
Sun's Corona Is Both Hot And Kinky
(7
March 2008) Astrophysicists are having a heated debate over the wave structure
of the Sun's Corona - a debate which may one day influence solar weather
forecasting and the theory behind fusion reactors.
Moon
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation And NASA Ames
Collaboration In Full Swing
(3 March 2008) A collaboration between
entrepreneurial space firm Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation and the NASA Ames
Research Center reached a notable milestone in mid-January with final
acceptance of the Ames-developed science payload for the LCROSS lunar mission
and its shipment to Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, CA, for
integration and testing with the LCROSS spacecraft there starting in late
February.
NASA Collaborates With Astronomers
In Search For Moon Water
(29 February 2008) In early 2009,
astronomers on Earth will point telescopes at the moon looking for water -- and
NASA will help them find their target.
Venus
Mars And Venus Are Surprisingly Similar
(5
March 2008) Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the
atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into
space.
Mars
Liquid Water Found On
Mars? Not Yet.
(29 February 2008) Liquid water has not been found on
the Martian surface within the last decade after all, according to new
research.
Mars And Venus Are Surprisingly
Similar
(5 March 2008) Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary
scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away
into space.
NASA Spacecraft Photographs
Avalanches On Mars
(3 March 2008) A NASA spacecraft in orbit around
Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's
north pole.
Saturn
Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
(6
March 2008) NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting
Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon.
Extra-Solar Planets
Alpha Centauri Should Harbour
Detectable, Earth-Like Planets, According To New Study By UC Santa Cruz
Astronomers
(7 March 2008) A rocky planet similar to Earth may be
orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbours and could be detected using
existing techniques, according to a new study led by astronomers at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Manned Space
MSU Experiments To Be Launched On Space
Shuttle
(4 March 2008) Chelsea Crandell originally thought she might
stay in Bozeman for spring break.
NASA Awards
External Tank Contract Modification
(29 February 2008) NASA has
signed a US$ 47.5 million contract modification with Lockheed Martin, New
Orleans, for space shuttle external fuel tanks.
Traffic Jam In Space: ATV Docking Under Tight
Schedule
(6 March 2008) ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle
(ATV), named Jules Verne, starts its mission on 9 March amidst a busy schedule
of space traffic at the International Space Station, allowing only limited
docking windows.
Technology
Boeing Among Industry Teams
Selected To Design New DARPA Space System
(4 March 2008) A team led
by Boeing has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) to demonstrate initial technologies for a new spacecraft system
architecture concept.
Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Awards F6 Satellite Program Contract To
Lockheed Martin
(5 March 2008) A team headed by Lockheed Martin
Space Systems Company (LMSSC) has received a US$ 5.7 million contract from
DARPA to compete in Phase 1 development of their System F6 space technology and
demonstration program.
Northrop Grumman
Selected For 1st Phase Of DARPA F6 Satellite Network
(5 March 2008)
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded the first phase of a four phase
advanced research contract to design and build a cluster of wirelessly
interconnected free flying spacecraft.
SpaceDev To Develop New Deployable Reflectors
Technology For AFRL
(6 March 2008) SpaceDev, Inc. announced today
that it was awarded a design and development subcontract from the Air Force
Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, for development of cost
effective deployable reflectors for satellites.
Launch Services
First SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Remains On
Schedule For Delivery To Cape Canaveral
(3 March 2008) Space
Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) today announced its newly revised
mission manifest listing twelve flights of its Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch
vehicles.
Glast Spacecraft Arrives In
Florida To Prepare For Launch
(4 March 2008) NASA's Gamma-ray Large
Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, arrived Tuesday at the Astrotech payload
processing facility near the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations
for launch.
ILS Announces Contract To Launch
Two Sirius Satellite Radio Spacecraft On Proton Breeze M
(29
February 2008) International Launch Services (ILS) announced a contract today
for the launch of two Sirius Satellite Radio satellites on the Proton Breeze M
vehicle.
Preparations Underway With The Star
One C2 Satellite For Ariane 5's Second Mission Of 2008
(4 March
2008) The initial payload for Arianespace's second Ariane 5 mission of 2008 has
started its pre-launch preparations, while a satellite for a subsequent launch
also has been delivered by the same manufacturer to the Spaceport in French
Guiana.
Sea Launch Prepares For The Launch
Of DirecTV 11
(5 March 2008) The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea
Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the equatorial Pacific,
in preparation for the launch of the DirecTV 11 broadcast satellite, planned
for Monday, March 17.
SpaceDev Awarded NASA
Contract For New Rocket Program
(3 March 2008) SpaceDev, Inc.
announced today that it has been awarded a contract by NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center for the research and development of its next generation
proprietary annular hybrid rocket motors.
Launch Services - ATV
Ariane 5 Is Cleared For Its March
9 History-Making Launch With The Automated Transfer Vehicle
(6 March
2008) Arianespace's record-setting Ariane 5 mission with the Automated Transfer
Vehicle (ATV) resupply spacecraft has been cleared for flight following the
Launch Readiness Review held today at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Successful Review For Jules Verne ATV
Launcher
(7 March 2008) The Launch Readiness Review (RAL), organised
by Arianespace at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, last night gave
the go-ahead for today's transfer of Ariane 5 out to the launch pad.
Ariane 5 Moves To The Launch Pad With Its ATV Payload
For The International Space Station
(7 March 2008) An historic
Arianespace mission is ready for final countdown following today's rollout of
its Ariane 5 ES vehicle to the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French
Guiana.
Launches
Launch
Schedule
Business
Echo Satcom Wins New Reseller Agreement For Its
SatMAX Product Line
(4 March 2008) Echo Satellite Communications,
Inc., a leading global provider of wireless, non-line-of-sight satellite
communications products and services, announced today that DK Enterprises, Inc.
will resell Echo's SatMAX advanced Iridium satellite communications system to
its U.S. military customers.
Products and Services
Vizada Launches Enhanced Version
Skyfile Mail Messaging Solution
(4 March 2008) Vizada, the world's
leading provider of global satellite communications solutions with more market
share on more satellite networks than any other provider in the world, today
launches an enhanced version (7.0) of its SkyFile Mail messaging
solution.
