16 August 2009
SatcomsGlobecomm Systems Awarded A US$ 2.0 Million Government Infrastructure Contract From A Major Global Organization
(11 August 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 government contract from a major global organization valued at US$ 2.0 million.
International Datacasting Corporation Wins Major Romanian Radio Contract
(11 August 2009) International Datacasting Corporation, a global leader in providing advanced solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia content via satellite, announced today its wholly owned subsidiary and European base of operations PROFline B.V., has been awarded a contract to provide a next generation satellite distribution network to SBS Broadcasting Media for the leading Romanian radio networks MagicFM and OneFM.
LinkStar And SurfBeam Hubs Add Service Options For Linkserve Ltd. In Africa
(12 August 2009) ViaSat Inc. is supplying LinkStarS2 ACM and SurfBeam satellite networking system hubs to Linkserve, one of the largest ISPs in West Africa.
WildBlue Activates Third Satellite For New Sales, Adding Broadband Capacity In Areas Of Highest Demand
(10 August 2009) WildBlue Communications today announced the successful start of broadband service on a third satellite, EchoStar’s AMC-15.
BroadcastChannel One Network Taps Keystone Enterprise Services For Satellite Network And Support Services
(10 August 2009) Keystone Enterprise Services, the leader in satellite enterprise video services, and Channel One Network, the pre-eminent news and content provider for teens, today announced that Channel One has contracted with Keystone Enterprise Services to supply turnkey satellite network and support services for its school news broadcast, Channel One News, which reaches more than six million middle and high school students on a daily basis.
SKY Brasil Builds HDTV Infrastructure Based On Harmonic's Digital Video Solutions
(10 August 2009) Harmonic Inc. today announced that SKY Brasil Serviços Ltda., Brazil's largest direct-to-home (DTH) satellite video service provider with nearly two million subscribers, has rolled out its new HDTV service based on Harmonic's market-leading MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video delivery solutions.
The Documentary Channel Re-Launches As A Fully Commercial Service And Enters Into A Multi-Year Carriage Agreement With DISH Network
(11 August 2009) The Documentary Channel (DOC), which debuted nearly four years ago as a public interest television network, re-launched as a fully commercial service in July 2009 and entered into a multi-year carriage agreement with DISH Network L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation.
Earth ObservationRapidEye Collaborates With The French Precision Farming Community
(10 August 2009) RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate their constellation of Earth observation satellites, announced today that they have successfully ran two pilot projects for VISIOPLAINE, a brand of S2B, Société des Services aux Betteraviers, in France, to support nitrogen fertilization of canola and wheat fields.
Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water
(12 August 2009) Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade.
UK-DMC2 Satellite Delivers First Images Just One Week After Launch
(11 August 2009) Just over one week after the launch of the UK-DMC2 satellite on 29th July, the first full resolution commercial grade image has been acquired and processed.
NavigationGalileo Applications For Rail Transportation To Be Tested At Siemens’ Test And Validation Center In Wegberg-Wildenrath
(10 August 2009) In the future, trains are to be equipped with systems that work with positioning information that is provided by satellite.
Qualcomm And Topcon Tierra Announce Alliance
(6 August 2009) Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading provider of business-to-business wireless enterprise applications and services, and Topcon Tierra have announced a transaction in which Topcon Tierra will acquire some of Qualcomm's customer contracts for the GlobalTRACS Suite for fleet management.
Topcon Selected To Provide GPS Reference Stations For The Japanese CORS ‘GEONET’
(10 August 2009) Topcon has been selected by the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI), an affiliate of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), to supply GPS reference stations.
Military SpaceRaytheon Develops World's Largest Infrared Light-Wave Detector
(11 August 2009) Raytheon Company has developed the world's largest infrared light-wave detector, expanding current capabilities in missile warning, environmental monitoring and astronomical research.
Telespazio Signed A Contract Worth Around Euro 30 Million In Poland
(7 August 2009) Ministry of Defense of Poland and Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has signed in Warsaw a contract, worth around Euro 30 million for a duration of more than 10 years, to provide Italian Sicral 1B space capacity in UHF frequency band.
AstrophysicsParticles As Tracers For The Most Massive Explosions In The Milky Way
(12 August 2009) Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of "dark matter".
AstronomyBall Aerospace To Ship WISE Spacecraft
(11 August 2009) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite.
Black HolesFirst Black Holes Born Starving
(10 August 2009) The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists Marcelo Alvarez and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and John Wise, formerly of KIPAC and now of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
SupernovaNew Laser Technique May Help Find Supernova
(12 August 2009) One single atom of a certain isotope of hafnium found on Earth would prove that a supernova once exploded near our solar system.
Variability Of Type 1a Supernovae Has Implications For Dark Energy Studies
(12 August 2009) The stellar explosions known as type 1a supernovae have long been used as "standard candles," their uniform brightness giving astronomers a way to measure cosmic distances and the expansion of the universe.
MarsMars, Methane And Mysteries
(10 August 2009) Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought.
Meteorite Found On Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past
(10 August 2009) NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history.
SaturnMethane Clouds Observed Near Titan's Equator May Explain Presence Of Riverbeds On The Surface
(12 August 2009) On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, methane clouds drift through a dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, clustering mainly in the polar regions.
Storm Clouds Over Titan
(12 August 2009) View a video of astronomers Henry Roe and Mike Brown discussing recently announced observations of storm clouds in the tropics of Titan.
Extra-Solar PlanetsHuge New Planet Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards
(12 August 2009) A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star.
Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying
(10 August 2009) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star.
Manned SpaceDe Winne 'Flies' Station Robotic Arm
(12 August 2009) ESA astronaut Frank De Winne operated the International Space Station's robotic arm last Friday to relocated a docking adapter on the outside of the Station's Unity module.
ESA Astronaut Roberto Vittori To Fly To ISS In 2010
(11 August 2009) ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori from Italy has been assigned as a Mission Specialist to Space Shuttle mission STS-134, which is currently scheduled for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in July or September 2010.
Medical Technologies International And NASA Johnson Space Center Partner On Cardiovascular Testing Initiative For Astronauts And Trainees
(10 August 2009) Medical Technologies International, Inc., (MTI) announced today that it has partnered with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) to help clarify and monitor the cardiovascular health of the Center’s astronauts and trainees.
NASA Assigns Crew For STS-134 Shuttle Mission, Change To STS-132
(11 August 2009) NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-134 to the International Space Station.
TechnologyPratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Scramjet Engine Installed In Second X-51A Flight Test Vehicle
(10 August 2009) Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's scramjet engine SJY61-2 has been installed in the second X-51A flight test vehicle at Boeing Phantom Works in Palmdale, Calif.
Launch ServicesFinal Lockheed Martin-Built Modernized GPS IIR Satellite To Lift-Off From Cape Canaveral
(10 August 2009) The last in a series of eight modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force is set to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on Aug. 17 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Services - AsiaSat 5
AsiaSat 5 Lifts Off
(12 August 2009) AsiaSat 5 aboard an ILS Proton launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at Hong Kong Time 3:47:33 a.m. on the 12th August.
AsiaSat 5 Spacecraft Separation Successfully Completed
(12 August 2009) AsiaSat 5, a new generation communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), was launched at Hong Kong Time 3:47:33 a.m. on the 12th August on an ILS Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
ILS Proton Successfully Launches AsiaSat 5 Satellite
(12 August 2009) International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong.
Space Systems/Loral-Built Satellite For AsiaSat Successfully Performs Post-Launch Manoeuvres
(12 August 2009) Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that AsiaSat 5, a satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), is performing post-launch manoeuvres according to plan.
Launch Services - JCSAT-12, Optus D3
Optus D3 Is Fuelled For Arianespace's Upcoming Dual-Passenger Ariane 5 Launch
(6 August 2009) The final phase of payload preparations has begun for Arianespace’s next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission, which is set for later this month with the Optus D3 and JCSAT-12 satellite passengers.
Fuelling Of JCSAT-12 Is Performed For Arianespace’s Fourth Ariane 5 Mission Of 2009
(7 August 2009) The second passenger on Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight has been fuelled at the Spaceport as preparations continue for the workhorse vehicle’s fourth heavy-lift launch of 2009 from French Guiana.
Preparations Continue With The JCSAT-12 And Optus D3 Payloads For Ariane 5's Next Launch
(12 August 2009) Both spacecraft for Arianespace’s fourth heavy-lift mission of 2009 are well advanced in their integration phase as preparations move forward for the August 21 night-time launch from French Guiana.
Optus D3 Is Integrated On Ariane 5 For Arianespace’s Dual-Passenger Mission At The Service Of Asia-Pacific Telecom Operators
(13 August 2009) The first of two telecommunications satellite payloads for Arianespace’s next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission has been installed atop its launcher as preparations move into their final phase for the August 21 flight.
LaunchesAsiaSat 5
BusinessLockheed Martin Breaks Ground Marking Expansion Of Newtown, Pa Facility
(11 August 2009) Lockheed Martin broke ground today on two new facilities at its Space Systems Company operations in Newtown, Pennsylvania, that will support spacecraft programs for government and commercial customers.
OHB Technology Acquires Carlo Gavazzi Space
(10 August 2009) OHB Technology AG today entered into an agreement with the owners of Italian space technology company Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.A., Milan, (CGS) for the acquisition of all of its shares.
Products and Servicesatrexx Expands IP Satellite Services For South America And The Caribbean
(13 August 2009) atrexx has introduced Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) satellite services on the 2way2sat platform to South America and the Caribbean.
Trimble Introduces New Series Of GNSS-Inertial OEM Modules For High-Precision Positioning And Orientation
(11 August 2009) Trimble today introduced the Trimble AP Series of embedded GNSS-Inertial OEM boards plus an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) in a compact form factor.
PeopleHornstra Joins Topcon As Product Planning Senior VP
(5 August 2009) Mark Hornstra has been appointed senior vice president of product planning of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS).
NDS Appoints Ezio Sanchez Ramos As Director Of Sales, NDS Latin America
(10 August 2009) NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has appointed Ezio Sanchez Ramos as NDS Sales Director for Latin America.
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