| Space Newsfeed | 28 June 2009 |
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Satcoms
21Net And UDcast Team Up To Provide Best-In-Class Broadband Internet Service In Trains
(22 June 2009) 21Net, a European Internet operator specializing in broadband Internet access to trains via satellite communications , and UDcast, a global provider of wireless IP broadcast solutions, announced today the selection of UDcast as 21Net supplier for link Optimization of its Broadband to Trains system.
Communications & Power Industries Receives US$1.7 Million Initial Contract For High-Power Amplifiers To Support A Multinational Organization
(22 June 2009) Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) has received an approximately US$ 1.7 million initial contract from Globecomm Systems Inc. to support a multinational defense organization.
International Datacasting Corporation's 3D Products With Sensio Technology Part Of Surgical Demo In South Korea
(22 June 2009) International Datacasting Corporation, a global leader in providing advanced solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia content delivery announced today that its Superflex 3D Live Encoders and Decoders with Sensio technology on board, were used in a live 3D demonstration of a robotic surgical system held at the 9th Annual Conference of Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal Surgery Group in South Korea.
Spacenet Taps SES Americom-New Skies To Meet Growing Emergency Network Demand
(22 June 2009) With a new hurricane season just underway and network outages a constant risk, SES Americom-New Skies, a division of SES S.A., today announced Spacenet has signed a multiyear satellite capacity agreement to help meet growing demand for emergency communications capabilities across North America.
SPOT Announces Availability Of Roadside Assistance With SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger
(24 June 2009) SPOT LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. and a leader in personal satellite messaging and emergency communications, today announced that the SPOT Assist Roadside service is now available to SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger customers in the Continental United States and Canada.
Telikom PNG Selects Gilat For Broadband Satellite Communications Project
(22 June 2009) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. today announced it has been selected by Telikom PNG Ltd. to provide a broadband satellite communications network covering hundreds of sites.
Broadcast
EchoStar's ViP-TV To Deliver Video Transport Service To Georgia IPTV Provider Ringgold Telephone
(23 June 2009) EchoStar Satellite Services, a division of EchoStar Corporation, announced today an agreement to deliver its ViP-TV video transport service to Ringgold Telephone Company (RTC), a provider of converged communications to more than 11,000 access lines in northern Georgia.
Satellite Communication Systems (Satcoms 2009)
The IET's well-established Satellite Communication Systems (Satcoms 2009) training course takes place at the University of Surrey on 12-17 July. Covering all aspects of modern satellite communication systems, system design and the latest technologies, there are still a few places left on the course. More information, the full programme and registration details are available from www.theiet.org/satcoms-course
Earth Observation
Europe And China Watching Earth Together
(25 June 2009) Nearly 200 scientists from Europe and China have gathered in Barcelona this week to report on the progress of ongoing Dragon 2 research projects using data from ESA and Chinese Earth observation satellites.
Infoterra Completes Largest Oil Slick Mapping Project Of Offshore Seychelles
(23 June 2009) Infoterra Ltd, a leader in the provision of geographic information products and services, and a subsidiary of Astrium, has completed an oil slick mapping and interpretation project of offshore Seychelles in collaboration with Seychelles Petroleum Company (Seypec).
MDA To Provide Ground Station Solution For Worldview Satellite Program
(22 June 2009) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide a remote ground station solution to an international customer to enable support for the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites.
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
(25 June 2009) Satellite, Now Entering Its Second Decade, Has Revolutionized Marine Weather Forecasts
TerraServer Licensed Imagery Used In Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
(23 June 2009) TerraServer, the leader in online satellite and aerial imagery, licensed imagery for the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen directed by Michael Bay which premiers June 24, 2009.
Navigation
GIOVE-A Operations Extended For Another Year
(23 June 2009) GIOVE-A, the first test satellite for Europe's Galileo navigation system, is to remain in service for a further 12 months.
Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal To Revolutionize Global Positioning System Operations
(22 June 2009) The Northrop Grumman Corporation Global Positioning System (GPS) Advanced Control Segment (OCX) team on June 20 submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the OCX Phase B contract.
NovAtel Wins Next-Generation US Federal Aviation Administration WAAS Receiver Contract
(25 June 2009) NovAtel Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) precise positioning technology, today announced the award of a contract by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop the next generation Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) reference receiver (the "GIII" receiver).
Military Space
Astrium Helps Irish Soldiers In Chad Keep In Touch With Family And Friends
(18 June 2009) Astrium Services has been selected by the Irish Department of Defence to deliver end-to-end welfare satellite communication services to its troops deployed overseas in Chad across three camps.
Citrix To Provide General Dynamics And WIN-T Increment 1 With Satellite Bandwidth Optimization Capabilities
(24 June 2009) Citrix Systems, Inc. announced today that it has supplied General Dynamics with over 1,500 Citrix WANScaler units that will be used to help optimize satellite bandwidth for the U.S. Army and its WIN-T (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical) initiative.
Lockheed Martin Team Awarded GBS Transition Contract To Provide Broadcast Management
(23 June 2009) Lockheed Martin announced today that it has been awarded the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Satellite Broadcast Management (SBM) Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) Transition contract by the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass.
Northrop Grumman Delivers First Demonstration Satellite For Space Tracking And Surveillance System
(22 June 2009) Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the first of two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites to the U.S. Air Force's Cape Canaveral Air Station for launch preparation.
Raytheon Demonstrates Breakthrough Antenna Technology During Air Force Flight
(26 June 2009) During a recent flight test, Raytheon Company successfully demonstrated breakthrough antenna technology that dramatically improves and delivers on the next generation of airborne communications for wide-body aircraft.
Tactical Satellite-3 Completes Successful First Month Of Operations
(22 June 2009) A month after launching, the Tactical Satellite-3 has exceeded expectations and is performing well, according to the program manager of the experimental spacecraft.
The French Ministry Of Defence Renews Its Satellite Telecommunications Services Contract With Astrium
(18 June 2009) The French Ministry of Defence's telecommunications operator, DIRISI, awarded the entire ASTEL-S contract to Astrium Services at the end of April 2009.
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Astrophysics
Milky Way's Super-Efficient Particle Accelerators Caught In The Act
(25 June 2009) Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators.
Astronomy
Boston Micromachines Deformable Mirror Used In Subaru Observatory Extreme Adaptive Optics Project
(24 June 2009) Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that its Kilo-DM is being used in the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-AO project (SCExAO) in a direct imaging technique in the search for extrasolar planets.
Sun
Joint ESA/NASA Ulysses Mission To End
(26 June 2009) Upon receipt of the last command from Earth, the transmitter on Ulysses will switch off on 30 June, bringing one of the most successful and longest missions in spaceflight history to an end.
Lockheed Martin Team Selected To Develop New Solar Mission
(23 June 2009) The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to develop a new Small Explorer Mission (SMEX) called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
Moon
General Dynamics Provides Communications Link For Lunar Mapping Mission
(24 June 2009) General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is providing the communications link for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission launched on June 18, 2009.
NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit
(23 June 2009) After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon.
NASA Moon Impactor Successfully Completes Lunar Manoeuvre
(23 June 2009) The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science instruments.
Northrop Grumman-Built LCROSS Completes Swing-By Of Moon
(23 June 2009) The Northrop Grumman Corporation-built Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) successfully completed a critical swing-by manoeuvre of the moon at 5:20 a.m. PDT on June 23.
Mars
Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged In Martian Soil
(25 June 2009) NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.
NASA's Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit To Study Warmer Ground
(22 June 2009) NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon.
New Instrument Could Detect Water Underground On Mars
(24 June 2009) With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whirr of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.
Saturn
Cassini Finding Hints At Ocean Within Saturn's Moon Enceladus
(24 June 2009) European scientists on the joint NASA/ESA Cassini mission have detected, for the first time, sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's E-ring, which is primarily replenished by material from the plumes of water vapour and ice grains emitted by Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Salt Finding From NASA's Cassini Hints At Ocean Within Saturn Moon
(24 June 2009) For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring.
Global Space Technology Forum
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7-9, December 2009
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Manned Space
Orion Propulsion Completes Qualification Testing For Innovative "Green" Propulsion System That Will Power World's First Commercial Space Habitat
(22 June 2009) Orion Propulsion, Inc. today announced completion of a qualification test program for the Forward Propulsion System (FPS) of Bigelow Aerospace's Sundancer Project, the world's first commercial space habitat.
Technology
BAE Systems Computer Powers NASA Missions To The Moon And Mars
(23 June 2009) A BAE Systems computer is at the core of a strategic NASA mission for space exploration.
Emcore Corporation Awarded Contract From Air Force Research Laboratory
(22 June 2009) Emcore Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and systems for the fibre optic and solar power markets, today announced it has been awarded a US$ 5.7 million cost-plus fixed-fee contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, located at the Kirtland Air Force Base, for the development of high-efficiency photovoltaic solar cells.
ESA To Build Its Third Deep Space Ground Station In Argentina
(26 June 2009) On 22 June, ESA informed Argentinean authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargüe in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a new 35-meter antenna in support of its programmes.
Technology Transfer
City Information Directly On Your Mobile
(23 June 2009) This month, a start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre launched a new mobile phone service which provides, with the help of satellite and telecommunication technology, location-based information on shopping, entertainment, tourism, and public transportation.
Launch Services
Initial Build-Up Of The Fourth Ariane 5 For 2009 Is Complete
(22 June 2009) The fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA for launch in 2009 has completed its initial build-up at the Spaceport as Arianespace remains on track for performing a total of seven flights targeted this year with the workhorse vehicle.
SMOS And Proba-2 Launch Rescheduled For November
(22 June 2009) Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will now launch on 2 November 2009.
The Spaceport's ELA-1 Launch Site Comes "Full Circle" In Its New Role With Vega
(19 June 2009) Initial preparations for Vega's new launch site in French Guiana have been completed, clearing the way for facility integration and qualification tests that should lead to a maiden flight of this new lightweight launcher in 2010.
Launch Services - Measat 3B
Land Launch Successfully Deploys Measat-3a Satellite To Orbit
(21 June 2009) The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system has successfully inserted the Measat-3a communications satellite (formerly Measat-1R) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, at the end of a mission originating from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
Measat-3a Satellite Successfully Launched
(22 June 2009) Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. ("Measat") is pleased to announce today the successful launch of the Measat-3a satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Orbital-Built Measat-3a Communications Satellite Successfully Launched
(22 June 2009) Orbital Sciences Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of smaller-sized geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellites, announced today that the Measat-3a satellite, which is based on the company's STAR-2 platform, was successfully launched into orbit during a mission that took place on Sunday, June 21, 2009.
Launch Services - TerreStar 1
Ariane 5 Receives Its Terrestar-1 Payload
(23 June 2009) The TerreStar-1 telecommunications satellite was mated to its Ariane 5 launcher today, taking Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift mission one major step closer to the July 1 lift-off.
Integration Of Ariane 5 Is Completed For Its Upcoming Heavy-Lift Launch With Terrestar-1
(26 June 2009) The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift mission is now complete following its payload fairing's installation over the TerreStar-1 payload – which will be the world's largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever orbited.
In Orbit
Telesat Picks Integral Systems For SkyTerra Satellite Command And Control
(24 June 2009) Integral Systems, Inc., announced a contract with Telesat of Ottawa, Canada, under which Integral will provide its EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) of satellite command and control software to support the SkyTerra1 and SkyTerra2 satellites under construction by Boeing.
Launches
Measat 3A (Measat 1R)
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Reports
Broadband Satellite Services Market To Exceed US$ 6.4 Billion by 2015, According To New Report By Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
(25 June 2009) High-speed networking is witnessing phenomenal rise in demand over the past few years.
Business
Czech Republic Signs Accession Agreement With EUMETSAT
(22 June 2009) The Czech Republic today signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT.
Latvia Becomes Latest Eumetsat Member State
(22 June 2009) Latvia has completed the ratification process to become a full Member State in EUMETSAT and has informed the Depository of the EUMETSAT Convention.
Sea Launch Files Chapter 11 To Address Financial Challenges
(22 June 2009) Sea Launch Company L.L.C. and Sea Launch Limited Partnership and subsidiaries ("Sea Launch" or "Company"), a leading provider of launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has filed voluntary petitions to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.
Products and Services
C-Com Develops Inclined Orbit Satellite Tracking Capability
(23 June 2009) C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. has developed a proprietary inclined orbit satellite tracking algorithm which will provide C-COM customers the ability to use inclined orbit satellites for their space segment needs.
Events
Earth Observation Symposium 2010 To Be Held In Norway
(26 June 2009) Building on the long heritage of scientific symposiums that provide a forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge related to Earth observation satellite data exploitation, ESA will host the Living Planet Symposium from 28 June – 2 July 2010 in Bergen, Norway.
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