10 May 2009
SatcomsAsiaSat Selects Space Systems/Loral For AsiaSat 5C
(5 May 2009) Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been selected to provide a new communications satellite, named AsiaSat 5C, to Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat).
C-Com Receives US$ 2.3 Million Worth Of Orders
(5 May 2009) C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. has received orders worth in excess of US$ 2,300,000 for its iNetVu Mobile satellite antenna systems from its resellers in Vietnam, China, New Zealand, India, Malaysia and Iraq.
El Corte Ingles Of Spain To Distribute Eutelsat's Tooway Satellite Broadband Service
(6 May 2009) El Corte Ingles and Eutelsat Communications today announced that the Tooway satellite broadband service will be available through Spain's leading retailer to consumers across the country who are located beyond range of terrestrial broadband coverage.
IPTV Americas Satellite-Based Service Nears First Launch – Costa Rica, Nicaragua
(5 May 2009) Latin American IPTV solutions provider IPTV Americas expects Nicaraguan ISP IBW to launch a TV service within the next two or three weeks, marking the solution vendor's first commercial launch of the service via satellite linkage, IPTV Americas CEO Alvaro Gazzolo told BNamericas.
ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Addresses Efforts To Improve International Satellite Regulatory Framework
(7 May 2009) The ITU Radiocommunication Workshop on the efficient use of spectrum and orbit resources was held in Geneva, focusing discussion on key satellite issues.
Multiple Contract Wins For Avanti
(6 May 2009) Avanti Communications Group plc, the broadband satellite operator, has signed contracts to supply broadband products to two distributors in Italy with an initial aggregate value of £200,000 in the first two years.
Spacenet Provides Transportable Satellite Communications Solutions To Erie Insurance
(5 May 2009) Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. and one of the world's leading providers of satellite networking solutions, announced today that its high-performance Connexstar satellite communications services have been deployed as part of an incident response vehicle for Erie Insurance.
Thuraya Announces Launch Of Point Of Presence (POP) And Meet Me Point (MMP) To Guarantee A High-Quality Streaming Service For ThurayaIP Customers
(3 May 2009) Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a world leading mobile satellite operator, today announced the establishment of a Point Of Presence (POP) and Meet Me Point (MMP) to enhance the performance of its high-speed broadband solution, ThurayaIP, for streaming customers.
BroadcastElcoteq Beijing Obtains Satellite Television Reception Equipment Manufacturing License
(6 May 2009) Elcoteq SE, a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the communications technology industry, announces that the Ministry of Commerce of China has granted the Elcoteq Beijing plant a license to manufacture satellite television reception equipment.
Earth ObservationERDAS And Spot Image Partnering On HMA-I Project
(4 May 2009) ERDAS and Spot Image announce a new partnership, increasing both organizations’ involvement in the Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility - Interoperability (HMA-I) project.
ESA Extends Its TIGER Project
(8 May 2009) ESA kicked off the second phase of its TIGER initiative at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey.
ESA's Earth Observation Missions: Sharing Teams And Facilities Boosts Efficiency
(5 May 2009) With ESA's family of Earth observation missions expanding, it makes sense to share operations engineers across satellites and conduct mission control from a combined Dedicated Control Room.
NASA Selects Northrop Grumman To Build Earth Science Instrument
(1 May 2009) NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman of Redondo Beach, Calif., to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument.
SPOT Signs Agreement To Distribute Kompsat-2 Imagery Across North America
(5 May 2009) SPOT Image Corporation today announced that it has entered into an agreement with KAI Image as the distributor of Kompsat-2 products to customers across North America.
NavigationSpirent Communications And University Of Nottingham Collaborate To Advance Multi-GNSS Technology
(7 May 2009) Spirent Communications plc the leading provider of navigation and positioning test solutions, and the GNSS Research and Applications Centre of Excellence (GRACE), part of University of Nottingham's Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG), have expanded their already strong relationship to further advance the facility's satellite navigation signal test and simulation capabilities.
TrackingAlways Safely On The Go
(6 May 2009) How can we better protect rescue workers when they are deployed in a catastrophe - or find avalanche victims more efficiently?
Military SpaceTacSat-3 To Provide Operational Backup And Data Dissemination
(1 May 2009) Two of the Tactical Satellite-3's trio of payloads may be called secondary, but their importance to the success of the spacecraft's year-long mission is primary.
AstrophysicsNASA's Fermi Explores High-Energy "Space Invaders"
(4 May 2009) Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away.
Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations For Dark Energy
(7 May 2009) Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent.
AstronomyFirst Two ALMA Antennas Successfully Linked
(6 May 2009) Scientists and engineers working on the world's largest ground-based astronomical project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have achieved another milestone — the successful linking of two ALMA astronomical antennas, synchronised with a precision of one millionth of a millionth of a second — to observe the planet Mars.
NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career
(6 May 2009) The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye.
SSTL Wins Role In The Euclid Mission
(6 May 2009) SSTL has secured a €300,000 contract to undertake radiation testing as part of the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission.
Superfluid Cryogenics Gives Herschel A Cool View Of The Cosmos
(6 May 2009) To achieve its goal of detecting the lowest temperature objects in the Universe ESA's Herschel space telescope must keep even cooler.
UC Berkeley UV Detector To Be Installed In Hubble Telescope
(7 May 2009) NASA's final mission to the 17-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, which begins May 11, will deliver a new instrument partly built by University of California, Berkeley, physicists to map the structure of the universe.
StarsStar Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel, IU Physicist Finds
(6 May 2009) Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
Solar SystemNASA Selects Future Projects To Study Mars And Mercury
(4 May 2009) NASA has selected two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury.
EarthNASA's THEMIS: 'Singing' Electrons Help Create And Destroy 'Killer' Electrons
(7 May 2009) Scientists using NASA's fleet of THEMIS spacecraft have discovered how radio waves produced by electrons injected into Earth's near-space environment both generate and remove high-speed "killer" electrons.
Extra-Solar PlanetsCreating The Astro-Comb To Locate Earth-Like Planets
(7 May 2009) Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems.
Manned SpaceAerojet Ships Jettison Motor To White Sands Missile Range For NASA's Orion Launch Abort System
(5 May 2009) Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced today that it has shipped the first jettison motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle to the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Boeing Processing Skills Ensure Smooth Hubble Repair Mission
(8 May 2009) Boeing team in Florida have ensured that all necessary interfaces, data systems, and hardware is ready for Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Farewell Ceremony In Turin – European-Built Node 3 Starts Its Journey To The ISS
(4 May 2009) The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May.
Lockheed Martin Team Supporting Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission
(4 May 2009) A team led by Lockheed Martin is providing support to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the planning, training and implementation of Servicing Mission 4 (SM-4) to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scheduled for launch on May 11.
NASA To Launch IMAX 3-D Camera To Film Hubble Servicing Mission
(4 May 2009) NASA, the IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Monday that IMAX 3-D cameras will return to space to document one of NASA's most complex space shuttle operations -- the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Textron Defense Systems Selected To Provide Heat Shield Materials For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
(6 May 2009) Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that it has been selected to provide thermal protection heat shields for the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
TechnologyPratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Dual-Mode Ramjet Engine At Mach 4 Flight Conditions
(5 May 2009) Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's PWR-9221FJ dual-mode ramjet engine successfully completed its first ground test at Mach 4 flight conditions at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tullahoma, Tenn.
Technology TransferCardiac Patients Take NASA Super Plastic To Heart
(6 May 2009) A NASA technology that was developed for an aerospace high-speed research program is now part of an implantable device for heart failure patients.
Launch ServicesESA To Launch Two Large Observatories To Look Deep Into Space And Time
(7 May 2009) Two of the most sophisticated astronomical spacecraft ever built – Herschel and Planck – will be launched by ESA this month towards deep space orbits around a special observation point beyond the Moon’s orbit.
Herschel And Planck Missions To Study Cosmos Share Ride To Space
(5 May 2009) Two missions to study the cosmos, the Herschel and Planck spacecraft, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
MDA Risk Reduction Satellite Launched
(5 May 2009) The Missile Defense Agency, supported by NASA and the commercial firm United Launch Alliance, today successfully launched the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Advanced Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR) satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at approximately 1:24 p.m. PDT (4:24 p.m. EDT).
STSS's Demo Program Space Vehicle Two Ships To Canaveral
(4 May 2009) The Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration Satellite Program has shipped one of two planned satellites to the Eastern Launch Site at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Missile Defense Mission
(5 May 2009) A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of the NASA Launch Services Program, successfully launched the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Advanced Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR) mission for the United States Missile Defense Agency at 1:24 p.m. PDT, today.
LaunchesSSTS-ATRR
Progress M-02M (ISS 33P)
ReportsSatellite SCADA/M2M Industry Unhampered By Global Economic Crisis, According To NSR
(6 May 2009) NSR today released its newest market survey and forecast report: "Global SCADA and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) via Satellite Markets."
BusinessDataPath Shareholders Approve Merger
(7 May 2009) DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, today announced that holders of DataPath's common stock have approved the merger agreement pursuant to which DataPath will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Directv Group And Liberty Media Corporation Announce Combination
(4 May 2009) The DirecTV Group, Inc. and Liberty Media Corporation today announced they have entered into definitive agreements for the combination of DirecTV Group with Liberty Entertainment, Inc., a company to be split-off from Liberty Media.
GeoEye Announces The Expansion Of Its Advanced Production Facility In St. Louis
(7 May 2009) GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information, announced today that it has completed an expansion, nearly doubling the production space, of its St. Louis, Missouri advanced production facility.
Products and ServicesEMS Satamatics Launches Next-generation SAT-202 Terminal, Expands Satellite Coverage To Pacific Central (PAC-C) Ocean Region
(7 May 2009) EMS Satamatics, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., announced today its latest terminal, the SAT-202, and expansion of its coverage to include the Inmarsat Pacific Central (PAC-C) ocean region.
GPS TracKing Is Latest Innovation From LandAirSea Systems
(4 May 2009) Building on its reputation for creating innovative, practical and affordable Global Positioning System (GPS tracking) devices, industry leader LandAirSea Systems announces the launch of a new product, the GPS TracKing, which redefines power and efficiency in the passive GPS tracking market.
KVH's New TracPhone FB150 Is A Small, Affordable System For Broadband At Sea
(5 May 2009) Today at the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, TX, KVH Industries Inc., introduced its compact and affordable new TracPhone FB150 maritime satellite communications system.
PeopleEileen Friel Named New Lowell Observatory Director
(4 May 2009) Dr. Eileen Friel has accepted the appointment by Observatory Trustee, William Lowell Putnam, to be the next Director of Lowell Observatory.
SeaMobile Names Jonathan Weintraub Chief Executive Officer
(3 May 2009) SeaMobile, Inc., the leading provider of satellite communications services to the maritime industry and remote locations throughout the world, has named Jonathan Weintraub as chief executive officer.
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