Satellite News

DigitalGlobe has appointed Steve Milton as vice president of software and systems, the company announced. Milton will…

Eagle Broadband Inc. has received a contract to provide an emergency communications system to Fort Bend County, Texas, the company announced. Eagle will provide its…

Croatia has become the 20th full member of Eumetsat’s community of states, the organization announced Dec. 15. Under an agreement…

NovAtel Inc. has become the first company outside of Europe accepted as a full member of Galileo…

A Delta 2 rocket placed a classified payload into orbit on Dec. 14 for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the first mission for the newly formed United Launch Alliance. The Delta 2 lifted off…

Access Intelligence LLC., a full-service B2B information and marketing solutions provider, is pleased to announce the launch Dec. 18 of the redesigned Web site of Satellite Today: http://www.satellitetoday.com. SatelliteToday.com’s new format…

The launch of JAXA’s H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 11 (H-IIA F11) with the Engineering Test Satellite Kiku No. 8 (ETS-VIII) onboard has been postponed because of bad weather at the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center.

Rocket: Minotaur I; Payload: TacSat 2, GeneSat 1; Date: 16 December 2006, 1200 UTC; Launch Site: Wallops Island, USA. The satellites were successfully launched on the four-stage launch vehicle contracted by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center through Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Launch Systems Group.