Satellite News

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced the appointment of Ari Krashin to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the company, effective immediately.

NSR LLC released findings from its latest report, “Broadband Satellite Markets, 7th Edition,” that indicate revenues from consumer satellite broadband services will overtake enterprise class broadband VSAT network services by 2013.

Raytheon Company said it has successfully completed a key satellite payload trade study with Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS, formerly SBIRS Low).

The core propulsion module of the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite was recently shipped from Lockheed Martin at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and arrived safely at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California.

Northrop Grumman Corporation said it successfully completed one of the most critical spacecraft environmental tests on NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) two months ahead of schedule.

Satelites Mexicanos S.A.B. de C.V. (Satmex) announced that it has issued an Authorisation To Proceed (ATP) with the construction of Satmex 7 to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). The new satellite will provide Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) in the Americas.

The third launch attempt of SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket will be delayed at least one month because mandatory support equipment and tracking stations won’t be available before the end of July.

Arianespace said it remains on track for its planned seven Ariane 5 launches in 2008, with three of the missions already performed. The upcoming mission with ProtoStar I and Badr-6 is timed just three weeks after Arianespace’s most recent flight, when an Ariane 5 ECA lofted Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A.