Satellite News

The Space Foundation announced that Bigelow Aerospace is the 2007 recipient of its Space Achievement Award.

Globecomm Systems Inc. said it has been awarded a satellite infrastructure contract from a “major provider of enterprise services” in the United States valued at US$1.2 million.

NASA engineers and scientists building the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have created a new telescope technology called “microshutters.” Microshutters are tiny doorways the width of a few hairs that will allow the telescope to view the most distant stars and galaxies humans have ever seen.

Lift-off of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle the NSS-8 telecommunications satellite on board has been postponed again, and SpaceX did not test fire its Falcon 1 rocket earlier this week as planned.

Iran plans to launch a satellite soon using a ballistic missile converted into a launch vehicle, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports in an article that contains lots of speculative statements but practically no news.