10 January 2010Free ContentNASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets
(4 January 2010) NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off The A-Train's Track
(4 January 2010) After nearly 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track."
iDirect Acquires Parallel Limited
(4 January 2010) VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), today announced that it has acquired UK-based Parallel Limited, the developer of the award-winning SatManage network management software suite.
Blue Sky Network’s New Portable Flight Tracking Device Operates On Its First Intercontinental Flight
(6 January 2010) Blue Sky Network, a leading, global provider of GPS tracking and communication solutions for land, sea, and aviation assets, today announced its newly launched ultra-portable D410A flight-following and messaging transceiver will operate on its first flight spanning two continents.
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's The NASTAR Center Commences Space Training For Prospective Scientist-Astronauts
(6 January 2010) Environmental Tectonics Corporation's ("ETC" or the "Company") The National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center's inaugural Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Course begins next week at its facility just outside Philadelphia, PA.
SatcomsBlue Sky Network’s New Portable Flight Tracking Device Operates On Its First Intercontinental Flight
(6 January 2010) Blue Sky Network, a leading, global provider of GPS tracking and communication solutions for land, sea, and aviation assets, today announced its newly launched ultra-portable D410A flight-following and messaging transceiver will operate on its first flight spanning two continents.
Com Dev Wins Commercial Contract
(8 January 2010) Com Dev International Ltd., a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US$ 7 million to provide passive microwave equipment for a commercial communications satellite.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Receives A US$ 1.3 Million Satellite Modem Order
(6 January 2010) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received a US$ 1.3 million order for satellite communications equipment.
Loral Enters Into Agreement With Barrett Xplore Inc. To Provide New High Throughput Satellite Capacity In Canada In 2011
(7 January 2010) Loral Space & Communications Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada's largest rural broadband provider, to deliver high throughput satellite Ka-band capacity for broadband services in Canada.
MDA's Advanced Technology Solution To Support O3b Communication Satellite Network
(6 January 2010) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has received a contract valued in excess of €15 million (US$ 22.5 million CAD) from Thales Alenia Space to provide a number of advanced technology solutions.
Newtec Set To Supply Ka-Band Ready Sat3Play Terminals And Hub Equipment
(7 January 2010) Newtec, a world-leading innovator in the satellite communications industry, today announced that it has further enhanced its technology for satellite broadband and will soon start supplying its customers with new Ka-band ready Sat3Play terminals and hub equipment.
OmniGlobe Networks Aims High
(6 January 2010) OmniGlobe Networks today announces its intention to procure, launch and operate a Ka-Band Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) geostationary communications satellite over Canada.
ViaSat Awarded Infrastructure And Network Services Contract By Barrett Xplore Inc. For Satellite Broadband In Canada
(7 January 2010) ViaSat has received a US$ 21 million contract from Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada's largest rural Broadband provider, for broadband gateway baseband infrastructure and satellite broadband terminals to be used with the high-capacity ViaSat-1 Ka-band satellite system.
XipLink Announces TESSCO As North American Distributor
(4 January 2010) Today XipLink, the technology leader in wireless optimization, announced TESSCO Technologies Incorporated as the company’s North American Value Added Distributor.
BroadcastInternational Datacasting Corporation Announces Contract With Public Broadcasting Service
(4 January 2010) International Datacasting Corporation, a global leader in the field of advanced video distribution networks, announced today that it has finalized a contract with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for its Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS).
Earth ObservationDigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Reaches Full Operational Capability On Schedule
(4 January 2010) DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, announced today that its latest high-resolution satellite, WorldView-2, has achieved full operational capability.
The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off The A-Train's Track
(4 January 2010) After nearly 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track."
NavigationBritish Company SSTL Wins Key Role In Europe’s Galileo Programme
(7 January 2010) SSTL has been selected by ESA to supply 14 navigation payloads for the deployment phase of the Galileo satellite navigation system which was announced by the European Commission (EC) today, 7th January.
European Commission Awards Major Contracts To Make Galileo Operational Early 2014
(7 January 2010) The European Commission announced today the award of three of the six contracts for the procurement of Galileo's initial operational capability.
OHB And SSTL Selected For The Construction Of 14 Galileo Navigation Satellites
(7 January 2010) The European Commission today announced that it has selected the consortium led by OHB-System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for building and testing 14 satellites for the Galileo satellite navigation system, a programme of and funded by the European Union.
Military SpaceComtech Telecommunications Corp. Successfully Completes U.S. Army Sponsored Testing Of Its BFT-2 Next-Generation Transceiver And Network Initiative
(7 January 2010) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation (CMDC), successfully completed U.S. Army sponsored field testing of its BFT-HC ground mobile and aviation transceiver and network solution, meeting or exceeding all JCR and BFT-2 specifications.
Globecomm Systems Receives Contract Extension From NATO Valued At US$ 9.1 Million For GPS-Based Force Tracking System
(5 January 2010) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading global provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, announced today that the Company has received a contract extension from NATO valued at US$ 9.1 million to extend communication services and onsite support for the Company's previously deployed GPS-Based Force Tracking System (FTS).
AstrophysicsAstronomers Get New Tools For Gravitational-Wave Detection
(5 January 2010) Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of the long-elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago.
AstronomyALMA Test Sharpens The Vision Of New Observatory
(4 January 2010) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has passed a key milestone crucial to producing the high-quality images that will be the trademark of this revolutionary new tool for astronomy.
Ball Aerospace Ships James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Segments To Marshall Space Flight Center
(6 January 2010) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped five James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) beryllium primary mirror segments as well as the engineering development unit (EDU) to Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., for cryogenic temperature testing.
Closing The Loop For ALMA
(4 January 2010) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has passed a key milestone crucial for the high quality images that will be the trademark of this revolutionary new tool for astronomy.
Mirror Testing At NASA Breaks Superstitious Myths
(7 January 2010) In ancient mythological times reflective surfaces like shiny metals and mirrors were thought to be magical and credited with the ability to look into the future.
NASA's WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse Of The Starry Sky
(6 January 2010) NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
StarsCenturies-Old Star Mystery Coming To A Close
(5 January 2010) For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky, slowly fading before coming back to life again.
PulsarsFaster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena
(5 January 2010) Pulsars are neutron stars that emit amazingly regular, short bursts of radio waves, so regular that they were originally thought to be signals from little green men!
Nature's Most Precise Clocks May Make "Galactic GPS" Possible
(5 January 2010) Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
GalaxiesGiant Intergalactic Gas Stream Longer Than Thought
(4 January 2010) A giant stream of gas flowing from neighbour galaxies around our own Milky Way is much longer and older than previously thought, astronomers have discovered.
Black HolesMassive Black Hole Implicated In Stellar Destruction
(4 January 2010) New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun.
SupernovaRunaway Anti-Matter Production Makes For A Spectacular Stellar Explosion
(4 January 2010) University of Notre Dame astronomer Peter Garnavich and a team of collaborators have discovered a distant star that exploded when its center became so hot that matter and anti-matter particle pairs were created.
SunEclipses Yield First Images Of Elusive Iron Line In Solar Corona
(5 January 2010) Solar physicists attempting to unlock the mysteries of the solar corona have found another piece of the puzzle by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere during eclipses.
Solar SystemHow The Earth Survived Birth
(7 January 2010) New simulation presented at astronomy meeting reveals planet migration prevents plunge into sun.
MoonSpace Systems/Loral Selected For Contract With NASA Ames Research Center
(6 January 2010) 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 propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft.
MarsGoddard Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket To Mars
(5 January 2010) The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm.
Extra-Solar PlanetsAstronomers Say Alien Dust Is Nothing To Sneeze At
(6 January 2010) Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers at UCLA have found dusty evidence for the formation of young, rocky planets around a star some 500 light years distant.
First Earth-Like Planet Spotted Outside Solar System Likely A Volcanic Wasteland
(5 January 2010) When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the long-time quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life.
In All The Galaxy, Just 15 Percent Of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
(5 January 2010) In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is.
Most Earthlike Exoplanet Started Out As A Gas Giant
(6 January 2010) The most earthlike planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-sized gas giant, according to research presented today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets
(4 January 2010) NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
Sun Glints Seen From Space Signal Oceans And Lakes
(5 January 2010) In two new videos from NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signalling large bodies of water on Earth.
Manned SpaceEnvironmental Tectonics Corporation's The NASTAR Center Commences Space Training For Prospective Scientist-Astronauts
(6 January 2010) Environmental Tectonics Corporation's ("ETC" or the "Company") The National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center's inaugural Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Course begins next week at its facility just outside Philadelphia, PA.
TechnologyNASA Selects Boston Micromachines For Two Phase 1 Projects
(6 January 2010) Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that it has been selected by NASA for two Phase 1 contracts.
Launch ServicesAriane 5 Development
(6 January 2010) Astrium is working on a more powerful version of the launcher on behalf of ESA.
Spacelift Range Group (LRRG) Awards Booz Allen Hamilton A Systems Engineering And Integration (SE&I) Contract To Support The Transformation Of The Spacelift Range Enterprise
(4 January 2010) Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a US$ 38.4 million Launch & Test Range System (LTRS) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) contract, which provides support to the Los Angeles-based Spacelift Range Group (LRRG), Launch and Range Systems Wing (LRSW), Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
U.S. Air Force Awards United Launch Alliance WGS-4 Satellite Launch
(4 January 2010) The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
BusinessiDirect Acquires Parallel Limited
(4 January 2010) VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), today announced that it has acquired UK-based Parallel Limited, the developer of the award-winning SatManage network management software suite.
MTN Satellite Communications Expands Presence In Europe, Opens New Office In Hamburg, Germany
(5 January 2010) MTN Satellite Communications, a global provider of maritime VSAT communications, connectivity and content services, announced today it has further expanded its presence in Europe by opening a new sales and engineering support office in Hamburg, Germany.
PeopleNASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld, Instrumental To Hubble Telescope Repair, Will Help Oversee Its Science Operations
(1 January 2010) NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, who participated in three spaceflights to service the Hubble Space Telescope, is leaving the agency to become the deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
NASA Names New Dryden Flight Research Center Director
(5 January 2010) NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden has named David D. McBride director of the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Romantis Appoints Harald Stange New Managing Director
(7 January 2010) Romantis Board of Directors appointed Dr. Harald W. Stange to succeed Kai Lauterjung as Managing Director of Romantis GmbH and Director Business Unit EMEA effective 1 January 2010.
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