Satellite News

General Dynamics C4 Systems recently mounted three 18.4-meter satellite antennas on 16-m-tall pedestals in Wahiawa, Hawaii/USA, as part of the preparations to deploy the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military’s next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications system.

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. announced earnings for the three-month period ending 30 June 2008.

Lockheed Martin Corporation today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is reportedly asking its member governments who exactly authorised the launch of ProtoStar I on 7 July 2008.

Starting last week, spacecraft controllers have been executing a series of manoeuvres to gradually bring Venus Express closer to its host planet. In its modified orbit, the spacecraft will be able to observe unexplored regions and investigate phenomena that were not within its reach before.

The Director-General of EUMETSAT, Dr. Lars Prahm, and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, Jean-Yves Le Gall, have signed the contract for the launch service for the last Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite, MSG-4.

Rocket: Kosmos 3M; Payload: SAR-Lupe 5; Date: 22 July 2008, 0240 UTC; Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The launcher deployed the radar satellite in Low-earth orbit at an altitude of around 500 km after roughly half an hour.