11 May 2008
Satcoms
C2SAT Delivers Stabilised VSAT
To The Oil & Gas Industry In Norway
Hughes Affirms Market Leadership Surpassing 400,000
Consumer And Small Business Satellite Broadband Subscribers
Intelsat And Panasonic To Bring Broadband Service To
The Skies
Orbcomm Signs Next Generation
Satellite Constellation Contract For 18 New Spacecraft
Orbital Data Net And Spacenet Support Emergency
Communications Networks In The State Of Missouri
SES Astra Signs Agreement With NordNet For The
Distribution Of Astra2Connect In France
Broadcast
Czech TV-Platform CS Link Signs For More Astra
Capacity
DirecTV Launches Premier Vietnamese
Television Entertainment Channel
IDMI To
Launch DVB S2 Broadband Platform On NSS-7
Intelsat Partners With Pangea Day For Live Broadcast
Spanning Five Continents
MultiChoice Hellas
Renews Eutelsat Hot Bird Capacity To 2020 And Takes Fifth Hot Bird
Transponder
Earth
Observation
Ball Aerospace Wins NASA Earth Sensing
Contracts
Navigation
GIOVE-B Transmitting Its First
Signals
Astrophysics
XMM-Newton Discovers Part Of Missing Matter In The
Universe
Stars
Argonne Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Physics Of
Exploding Stars
Sun
NASA Calls On APL To Send A Probe To The
Sun
Earth
ESA Contributes To Ocean
Carbon Cycle Research
Scientists Endure
Arctic For Last Campaign Prior To CryoSat-2 Launch
Saturn
Saturn Does The Wave In Upper
Atmosphere
Manned
Space
Exhaling For Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar
Breathing System
NASA Awards Contract For
Ares I Mobile Launcher
NASA Successfully
Completes First Series Of Ares Engine Tests
Technology
NASA, Intel, SGI Plan To 'Soup Up'
Supercomputer
SGI To Supply NASA's Next
Major Supercomputer
Launch
Services
Skynet 5C And Turksat 3A Are Fuelled For The Upcoming
Ariane 5 Heavy-Lift Launch
Launches
Launch
Schedule
In
Orbit
Integral Systems Europe Announces EPOCH IPS Satellite
Ground System Compliance With The ESA Packet-Utilization Standard
(PUS)
Reports
Mobile Satellite TV Has Great Growth Potential In
Europe
Business
Com Dev Receives Regulatory Approval For Acquisition Of
Passive Microwave Devices Product Line
Products and Services
Humax Launches Freesat HD Digital
Box
People
Americom Government Services
Hires Angela Steever To Lead Government Contracts
Bill Flynn Joins Americom Government Services to Lead
Navy Programs
SES Americom Announces Change
In Executive Management
Weiler Assumes
Official Role As Nasa Science Chief
Satcoms
C2SAT Delivers Stabilised
VSAT To The Oil & Gas Industry In Norway
(5 May 2008) C2SAT,
today announces the delivery to the Norwegian Oil & Gas offshore
market.
Hughes Affirms Market Leadership
Surpassing 400,000 Consumer And Small Business Satellite Broadband
Subscribers
(8 May 2008) Hughes Network Systems, the global leader
in broadband satellite network solutions and services, today announced that the
number of HughesNet residential and small business subscribers passed the
400,000 mark in the first quarter of this year, affirming Hughes' position as
the leading provider of broadband satellite Internet access to consumers and
small businesses in the U.S.
Intelsat And
Panasonic To Bring Broadband Service To The Skies
(6 May 2008)
Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services,
and Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), today announced the signing of
a multi-year service agreement that will result in the next generation of
in-flight passenger broadband access.
Orbcomm
Signs Next Generation Satellite Constellation Contract For 18 New
Spacecraft
(7 May 2008) Orbcomm Inc., a leading global satellite
data communications company providing two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
communications, today announced that it has signed a next generation satellite
constellation contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build 18 new
Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites with an option to purchase up to 30
additional OG2 satellites to augment and upgrade Orbcomm's existing satellite
constellation.
Orbital Data Net And Spacenet
Support Emergency Communications Networks In The State Of
Missouri
(7 May 2008) Spacenet Inc., a leading provider of satellite
network solutions, announced today that its advanced satellite services have
been deployed as part of an emergency response network for two Missouri state
agencies - Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and Missouri Department of
Transportation (MoDOT).
SES Astra Signs
Agreement With NordNet For The Distribution Of Astra2Connect In
France
(6 May 2008) SES Astra, an SES company, has signed an
important framework contract with the internet service provider NordNet to
market its satellite based two-way broadband service Astra2Connect in
France.
Broadcast
Czech TV-Platform CS Link Signs For More Astra
Capacity
(8 May 2008) SES Astra, an SES company, has signed an
agreement for an additional transponder on its new prime orbital position -
23.5 degrees East - for the Czech Pay-TV platform CS Link.
DirecTV Launches Premier Vietnamese Television
Entertainment Channel
(8 May 2008) DirecTV, the nation's leading
satellite television provider, continues to expand its WorldDirect programming
platform with the exclusive addition of HonvieTV, a high-quality entertainment
channel for the Vietnamese community in the U.S.
IDMI To Launch DVB S2 Broadband Platform On
NSS-7
(5 May 2008) SES New Skies, an SES company, announces that
IDMI, the international arm of IDM, Lebanon's leading ISP with more then 125000
users, has contracted 40 MHz on SES New Skies' NSS-7 satellite to introduce a
new DVB S2 SCPC broadband platform serving customers in the Middle East and
Africa.
Intelsat Partners With Pangea Day For
Live Broadcast Spanning Five Continents
(8 May 2008) Intelsat, Ltd.,
the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced today
its agreement to supply the global satellite capacity for the contribution and
broadcast distribution of Pangea Day.
MultiChoice Hellas Renews Eutelsat Hot Bird Capacity
To 2020 And Takes Fifth Hot Bird Transponder
(6 May 2008)
MultiChoice Hellas that operates Nova, the leading pay-TV platform in Greece
and Cyprus, today announced the renewal to 2020 of its satellite capacity at
the Hot Bird video neighbourhood operated by Eutelsat
Communications.
Earth
Observation
Ball Aerospace Wins NASA Earth Sensing
Contracts
(5 May 2008) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has
been awarded two NASA contracts that support the agency's Science Mission
Directorate 2007 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) in developing Earth science
instrument subsystem technologies.
Navigation
GIOVE-B Transmitting Its First
Signals
(7 May 2008) Following a successful launch on 27 April,
GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today.
Astrophysics
XMM-Newton Discovers Part Of Missing
Matter In The Universe
(6 May 2008) ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory
XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part
of the missing matter in the universe.
Stars
Argonne Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Physics Of
Exploding Stars
(5 May 2008) Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among
a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the
next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an
event that takes less than five seconds.
Sun
NASA Calls On APL To Send A Probe To The
Sun
(5 May 2008) The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever
gone - and what it finds could revolutionise what we know about our star and
the solar wind that influences everything in our solar
system.
Earth
ESA Contributes To Ocean
Carbon Cycle Research
(5 May 2008) The Earth's oceans play a vital
role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine
biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25
000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere
annually.
Scientists Endure Arctic For Last
Campaign Prior To CryoSat-2 Launch
(9 May 2008) An international
group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most
inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field
campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring the data delivered by ESA's ice
mission CryoSat will be as accurate as possible.
Saturn
Saturn Does The Wave In Upper Atmosphere
(7
May 2008) Two decades of scrutinising Saturn are finally paying off, as
scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's
atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.
Manned Space
Exhaling For Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar
Breathing System
(7 May 2008) Imagine yourself hip-to-hip,
shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight
hours with five people you just met.
NASA
Awards Contract For Ares I Mobile Launcher
(8 May 2008) NASA's
Kennedy Space Center has awarded a contract to Hensel Phelps of Orlando, Fla.,
for the construction of the Ares I mobile launcher for the Constellation
Program.
NASA Successfully Completes First
Series Of Ares Engine Tests
(8 May 2008) NASA engineers Thursday
successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of
the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V
rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation Program.
Technology
NASA, Intel, SGI Plan To 'Soup Up'
Supercomputer
(7 May 2008) NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today
announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on
significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and
capacity.
SGI To Supply NASA's Next Major
Supercomputer
(6 May 2008) NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next
major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI Altix ICE system, after a competitive
evaluation the space agency launched last year.
Launch Services
Skynet 5C And Turksat 3A Are Fuelled For The Upcoming
Ariane 5 Heavy-Lift Launch
(6 May 2008) The two payloads for
Arianespace's next Ariane 5 heavy-lift mission have been fuelled as
preparations continue for the May 23 launch from the Spaceport in French
Guiana.
Launches
Launch
Schedule
In
Orbit
Integral Systems Europe Announces EPOCH IPS Satellite
Ground System Compliance With The ESA Packet-Utilization Standard
(PUS)
(8 May 2008) ISE (Integral Systems Europe), a subsidiary of
Integral Systems, Inc., today announced that its' EPOCH IPS (EPOCH Integrated
Product Suite) COTS product is in compliance with ESA's (European Space Agency)
PUS (Packet-Utilization Standard) for Satellite Control Systems and EGSE
(Electrical Ground Support Equipment).
Reports
Mobile Satellite TV Has Great Growth Potential In
Europe
(8 May 2008) While the European Mobile TV market is on the
verge of significant growth, it still faces problems related to the efficient
transmission and distribution of Mobile TV services.
Business
Com Dev Receives Regulatory Approval
For Acquisition Of Passive Microwave Devices Product Line
(5 May
2008) Com Dev USA, LLC, a subsidiary of Com Dev International Ltd., today
announced that it been granted regulatory approval from the Committee for
Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for its proposed US$ 12.2
million acquisition of the Passive Microwave Devices product line from L-3
Communications.
Products and
Services
Humax Launches Freesat HD Digital Box
(6
May 2008) Humax has today launched the Foxsat-HD digital set-top box, enabling
UK TV viewers to watch subscription-free high definition (HD) content through
the new Freesat digital TV service.
People
Americom Government Services Hires Angela Steever To
Lead Government Contracts
(8 May 2008) Americom Government Services,
Inc. (AGS) today announced that Angela Steever has joined as Director of
Contracts in their offices in McLean, VA.
Bill Flynn Joins Americom Government Services to Lead
Navy Programs
(8 May 2008) Bill Flynn, after more than 25 years of
Navy experience, has joined Americom Government Services, Inc. (AGS) as
Director of Navy Programs in their offices in McLean, VA.
SES Americom Announces Change In Executive
Management
(9 May 2008) SES Americom, an SES Company, announced that
President and CEO, Edward D. Horowitz, has resigned from the company to pursue
opportunities with Global Entertainment and Media Holdings
Corporation.
Weiler Assumes Official Role As
Nasa Science Chief
(7 May 2008) Administrator Michael Griffin
announced Wednesday that Ed Weiler will remain as NASA's associate
administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
