12 July 2009
SatcomsDelta Wave Providing Inmarsat FleetBroadband 150 Equipment
(9 July 2009) Delta Wave Communications, Inc. is pleased to announce that they will be providing the new FleetBroadband 150 line of equipment and services.
Globecomm Systems Awarded A US$ 3.6 Million Contract From A Global Organization For Multi-Media Processing Centers
(9 July 2009) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services on a global basis, today announced that the Company has received a contract from a global organization valued at US$ 3.6 million.
Intersat Africa Advances Service Delivery In Africa Using Newtec FlexACM Technology
(9 July 2009) Newtec’s FlexACM solution assists Intersat Africa in optimizing its satellite space segment resources by achieving over 50 % throughput increase compared to DVB-S
SkyVision Launches Next-Generation Satellite Network Using iDirect's Evolution Platform To Support Enterprise Growth In Emerging Markets
(7 July 2009) VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) today announced that SkyVision, a leading global provider of IP connectivity services over satellite and terrestrial fibre optic systems, has purchased an iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hub to launch an Evolution network covering 100 percent of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia with a single C-band satellite beam.
Space Systems/Loral-Built TerreStar Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Manoeuvres
(2 July 2009) 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 the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch manoeuvres.
SPOT Announces National Distribution At Pep Boys Stores
(9 July 2009) SPOT LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. and a leader in personal satellite messaging and emergency communications, today announced it has expanded its retail distribution to The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack, the nation’s leading automotive aftermarket service and retail chain.
Telesat Completes Transfer Of Its Interests In Telstar 10/Apstar 2R Back To APT Satellite Company
(9 July 2009) Telesat Canada, the world's fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, and APT Satellite Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of APT Satellite Holdings Limited, announced today that they have closed a transaction pursuant to which Telesat has transferred its leasehold interests in Telstar 10 to APT, along with certain customer contracts related to the satellite.
UltiSat Announces Completion Of C-Band Teleport In Nigeria
(9 July 2009) UltiSat, Inc., a global satellite communications managed network provider and systems integrator, today announced the implementation and commissioning of a C-band teleport for AFCOMSAT, a leading Nigerian satellite services provider.
BroadcastEmbratel Selects Nagravision For Its New Generation CA System
(2 July 2009) Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company and the world's leading independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, announced today that a Nagravision new generation conditional access (CA) system was selected by Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações S.A. (Embratel), Brazil’s second largest telecommunications company, for its DTH service.
Football TV-Channel Onboard Sirius 4 Satellite
(6 July 2009) SES Sirius, an SES Astra company, announced today that Football TV-channel has started broadcasting transmission via the Sirius 4 satellite for the Ukrainian market.
Earth ObservationChina Environmental Phenomena Monitored From Space
(3 July 2009) Western China is a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history.
NASA Research To Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence
(7 July 2009) NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions.
Satellite Sensor Maps Global Atmospheric Ammonia Emissions
(7 July 2009) Using radiation measurements obtained by the MetOp satellite, scientists have produced the first complete map of global ammonia emissions – a pollutant of key environmental concern.
Spectratime, A Company Of The Orolia Group, Awarded 1.8M Euro Contract To Supply Rubidium Space Clocks
(6 July 2009) SpectraTime, a company of the Orolia Group, today announced the award of a contract valued at 1.8M Euro to supply six Rubidium Space Clocks for scientific Earth observation satellites.
NavigationHandover To Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) Of The Infrastructure That Will Host The Control Centre For The Galileo European Space Programme
(7 July 2009) Today saw the signing, at the Fucino Space Centre, of the formal agreement to hand over the infrastructure for one of the control centres of the Galileo satellite constellation to Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company.
Military SpaceNorthrop Grumman Delivers Second Demonstration Satellite For Space Tracking And Surveillance System
(2 July 2009) Northrop Grumman Corporation completed delivery of both Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites on June 25, 2009, when the second satellite arrived at the U.S. Air Force's Cape Canaveral Air Station for launch preparation.
Raytheon And National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Improve Flow Of Commercial Imagery To Analysts And Warfighters
(8 July 2009) Raytheon Company and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) marked the transition of an improved capability that will rapidly ingest and disseminate imagery from U.S. commercial satellite companies to warfighters and intelligence analysts worldwide.
AstronomyCoolest Spacecraft Ever In Orbit Around L2
(3 July 2009) Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space.
Herschel Images Promise Bright Future
(10 July 2009) Herschel has carried out the first test observations with all its instruments, with spectacular results.
James Webb Space Telescope Core Completes Thermal Testing
(6 July 2009) Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed testing on a model of the "core" section of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to validate the observatory's sophisticated thermal modelling and design.
NASA Views Stars Of Interest Through The Eyes Of Canada's Space Telescope
(7 July 2009) Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canada's designer and builder of the Multi Mission Microsatellite Bus technology (MMMB), and innovator of Reaction Wheel attitude control system products is delighted to announce that the MOST Operations Team is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to look at a star of joint interest.
Orbital Selected By NASA To Build New Space Science Satellite To Study X-Ray Polarization
(8 July 2009) Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new low-Earth orbit (LEO) space science satellite that will study X-ray polarization in space.
StarsSimulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars
(9 July 2009) The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, according to a paper published today in Science Express.
PulsarsNASA's Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens Of Pulsars
(2 July 2009) With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
NASA's Fermi Telescope Reveals A Population Of Radio-Quiet Gamma-Ray Pulsars
(1 July 2009) A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms behind pulsar emissions.
GalaxiesAstrophysicists Solve Mystery In Milky Way Galaxy
(8 July 2009) A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable “dark matter” believed to make up much of the mass of the universe.
Black HolesPinpointing Origin Of Gamma Rays From A Supermassive Black Hole
(2 July 2009) An international collaboration of 390 scientists reports the discovery of an outburst of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M 87), accompanied by a strong rise of the radio flux measured from the direct vicinity of its super-massive black hole.
SunNASA Awards Total And Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Contract
(10 July 2009) NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the development of the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS, a key instrument for the future National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, known as NPOESS.
MoonNASA's LRO Spacecraft Sends First Lunar Images To Earth
(2 July 2009) NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23.
MarsESA And NASA Establish A Joint Mars Exploration Initiative
(8 July 2009) On 29 and 30 June the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, met NASA's Associate Administrator for Science, Ed Weiler, in Plymouth, UK, to establish a way for a progressive programme for exploration of the Red Planet.
Ice Shouldn't Stop Dune Movement On Mars Or Earth
(1 July 2009) Planetary scientists have monitored some Martian sand dunes for more than 30 years, and the dunes have not moved during that time, leading scientists to question whether snow and ice trapped inside the dunes might be preventing movement.
NASA Phoenix Results Point To Martian Climate Cycles
(2 July 2009) Favourable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favourable environment for microbes.
PlutoRise And Shine: New Horizons Wakes For Annual Checkout
(8 July 2009) New Horizons is up from the longest nap of its cruise to Pluto, as operators “woke” the spacecraft from hibernation yesterday for its annual series of checkouts and tests.
Manned SpaceAdvanced Re-Entry Vehicle Activities Begin With Contract Signature
(7 July 2009) ESA has signed the study contract with EADS Astrium in Bremen, Germany, for the Advanced Re-entry Vehicle (ARV), which received its approval at ESA’s Ministerial Conference in November 2008.
Aerojet To Test Advanced Liquid Oxygen Liquid Methane Rocket Engine For Lunar Ascent
(2 July 2009) Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced today that it has completed manufacturing and assembly of an advanced 5,500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Liquid Methane (LCH4) rocket engine.
Astrium Conducts ESA Study On The Advanced Re-entry Vehicle
(7 July 2009) Astrium, Europe's leading space company, is conducting a study for a future European Transport System, ARV (Advanced Re-entry Vehicle), on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Further Development Of ATV Technology - Contract On Study Signed
(7 July 2009) ATV-2 bears the name 'Johannes Kepler'
NASA Tests Alternate Launch Abort System For Astronaut Escape
(8 July 2009) NASA has successfully demonstrated an alternate system for future astronauts to escape their launch vehicle.
Northrop Grumman Plays Major Role In NASA's Development Of Alternate Astronaut Escape System
(8 July 2009) Northrop Grumman Corporation played a major role in NASA's development of an alternate astronaut escape system that was successfully demonstrated today in a simulated launch abort test.
Stacking Of New Space Vehicle Begins At Kennedy Space Center
(8 July 2009) For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform (MLP) at Kennedy Space Center, thanks to the hard work and dedication of an experienced team of employees from NASA and contractors United Space Alliance (USA) and Alliant Techsystems.
TechnologyAd Astra VX-200 Plasma Engine Demonstrates Superconducting First Stage At Full Power
(2 July 2009) Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions in tests conducted today at the company's Houston laboratory.
Proba-2's Journey To Russia Marks Its First Step Towards Space
(2 July 2009) Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland.
Wireless Networks Spread From Earth To Space
(2 July 2009) ESA engineers plan to apply the same wireless systems that keep our mobile phones, laptops and devices connected on the move to a new generation of networked space hardware.
Launch ServicesDubaisat-1 Reaches Baikonour Launch Base In Kazakhstan
(7 July 2009) With only 18 days left for the launch of DubaiSat-1, the first remote sensing satellite developed by a UAE entity - the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST), the satellite has now been shipped from its development base in South Korea to the launch pad in Baikonour in Kazakhstan.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Arrives At Kennedy Space Center
(10 July 2009) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on July 9 for its upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth.
Space Systems/Loral Delivers AsiaSat 5 To Baikonur Launch Base
(10 July 2009) 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 shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it is scheduled to launch in early- to mid-August aboard a ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
SSTL To launch UK-DMC2 And Deimos-1 Earth Observation Missions In July
(10 July 2009) Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on 25th July.
LaunchesCosmos 2451, Cosmos 2452, Cosmos 2453
ReportsVSAT Weathers Economic Storm
(7 July 2009) The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies (GaAs) service report, “GaAs Device Opportunities from the Satcom/VSAT Market: 2008-2013,” concludes that long design cycles and pent-up demand driven by the consumer sector will allow the VSAT (very small aperture terminals) market to weather the current economic storm better than most communications markets, translating into steady demand for GaAs (gallium arsenide) devices.
BusinessCapital Increase For E-GEOS: Company Created By ASI And Telespazio (A Finmeccanica/Thales Company) Fully Operational From Today
(1 July 2009) e-GEOS, the company created by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Telespazio (a Finmeccanica /Thales company) is fully operational from today.
Digi Enters The Market For Satellite Subscriber Communicators For The Orbcomm Network Through Acquisition Of MobiApps
(9 July 2009) Orbcomm Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on providing Machine to Machine (M2M) solutions, announced that Digi International Inc. has entered the market for satellite Subscriber Communicators for the Orbcomm network with its recent purchase of MobiApps Holdings Private Limited (MobiApps).
Globalstar Completes US$ 738 Million Financing
(1 July 2009) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments, and consumers, today announced that it has completed a financing of approximately US$ 738 million.
Inmarsat Completes Investment In SkyWave Mobile Communications - Advances Position In Satellite Low Data Rate Services Market
(2 July 2009) Inmarsat plc, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has completed its previously announced strategic investment, long term global distribution agreement and new product development agreement with SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc. of Ottawa, Canada.
Poland Becomes Latest Eutelsat Member State
(2 July 2009) EUMETSAT was officially notified by the Depositary of the EUMETSAT Convention that Poland deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention on 30 June 2009.
Products and ServicesATCi's Warrior Satellite Surveillance And Monitoring System Opens Up Law Enforcement Agency Markets To Voice, Video And Data
(6 July 2009) Antenna Technology Communications Inc., a provider of commercial satellite communications systems, today announced the deployment of its Warrior Satellite Monitoring and Surveillance System specific for the law enforcement agency markets.
PCI Geomatics Announces New Upgrade To Its Geomatica Software Including Its Advanced SAR Polarimetry Workstation
(8 July 2009) PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announced the availability of an upgrade to its remote sensing and image processing software.
Small Form Factor L-band Mux/Demux In High DEV Quality
(7 July 2009) With a new family of L-band multiplexers/demultiplexers, DEV Systemtechnik assists operators of satellite ground stations and cable head end stations to monitor permanently a multitude of RF signals.
Vizada Launches ThurayaIP Broadband Mobile Satellite Service
(7 July 2009) Vizada, the independent satellite communications provider, has launched the ThurayaIP broadband mobile satellite service.
TrainingESA Training Course Focuses On Land
(10 July 2009) Satellites provide us with an enormous amount of quality data about our planet daily, but the value of these data can only be realised through the ability and creativity of users.
PeopleEmrise Corporation Promotes Graham Jefferies To President; John Donovan To Senior VP, Chief Financial Officer
(7 July 2009) Emrise Corporation, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced that it has promoted veteran operating executive Graham Jefferies to President and Chief Operating Officer, and veteran financial executive John Donovan to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 6, 2009.
Globalstar, Inc. Announces Appointment Of Peter J. Dalton As Chief Executive Officer And Election Of William A. Hasler To Its Board Of Directors
(9 July 2009) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments, and consumers, announced executive organizational changes that became effective July 8, 2009.
Orbcomm Appoints Executive Vice President Of Sales And Marketing
(2 July 2009) Orbcomm Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that Brian Bell has joined Orbcomm as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
SeaMobile And MTN Satellite Services Names Jeanne Prayther Chief Financial Officer
(7 July 2009) SeaMobile, Inc. and its MTN Satellite Services subsidiary, the leading provider of satellite communications services to the maritime industry and remote locations throughout the world, have named Jeanne Prayther as Chief Financial Officer.
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