The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Based Infrared Systems Wing has announced the successful completion of critical design reviews for the SBIRS Follow-On Production program for the Highly Elliptical Orbit and Geosynchronous payloads. Read the rest of this entry »
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) have signed a lease agreement for the use of multiple Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat 5 for a new, premium, Direct-to-Home (DTH) service in Vietnam. Read the rest of this entry »
Rhea (949 miles in diameter) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. Read the rest of this entry »
NASA has extended a contract with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide science and operational support for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Read the rest of this entry »
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to provide a new, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), EchoStar XVI, to a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq:SATS). Read the rest of this entry »
In a web posting at the RIANovosti site, Russia is apparently going to launch research into nuclear engines for spaceships from 2010, according to the head of the country’s Federal Space Agency. Read the rest of this entry »
Start-up satellite broadband service provider Avanti Communications of London announced that it has secured more than $300 million in loans and guarantees from the U.S. and French export-credit agencies for a Hylas 2 Ka-band satellite to be built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, and launched in the first half of 2012 by Franceโs Arianespace launch consortium. Read the rest of this entry »
Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Spot LLC, have acquired substantially all of the assets of Axonn, L.L.C. (Axonn). Read the rest of this entry »
Overwatch has announced that Karl Stupnik has joined Overwatch, a Textron Systems company, as Business Development Manager. Read the rest of this entry »
Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will draft an agreement on space cooperation, the Roscosmos chief said last Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
