Satellite News

“The move was opposed by some member States which felt the cash would be better off being spent on giving French farmers subsidy money to stop them bringing their tractors into Paris, or very large EC sponsored lunches.” — The Inquirer on EU plans to use unspent agricultural and administrative funds for Galileo

The European Union’s troubled Galileo satellite navigation system will be financed from leftover EU funds, most of them originally earmarked for agriculture, finance ministers decided.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed qualification testing of the payload flight software for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite payload.

Essel Group’s Agrani Satellite Services Ltd plans to buy Ku-band transponders aboard the planned ProtoStar 1 satellite, Indiantelevision.com reports.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and the University of Surrey have succeeded for the first time in capturing a Galileo signal reflected off the ocean surface in orbit, demonstrating the potential for determining the weather at sea with remote sensing satellites.

One of the three GLONASS-M navigation satellites launched from Baikonur on 26 October has been put into operation.

DigitalGlobe announced that WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning, meets all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView programme.

A joint team of NPO PM and Thales Alenia Space has started electrical testing of the Ekspress-AM33 satellite being developed under the contract of Roskosmos, the Russian information and communications ministry and Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).