Satellite News

EchoStar Corporation and DISH Network reported financial results for the second quarter 2008.

SES S.A. reported financial results for the first half of 2008.

SES said several of its Lockheed-Martin built satellites have experienced varying degrees of power loss in some of their solar array circuits.

More than one year after the explosion at Scaled Composites that killed three workers, it is still unknown what exactly caused the accident.

Boeing announced the completion of a US$10 million, 1,900 m^2 satellite Mission Control Center (MCC) in El Segundo, California/USA. The MCC can manage up to four commercial or government satellite missions at the same time.

The Center for Space Standards & Innovation said its SOCRATES-GEO service reached a milestone recently when the 100th GEO satellite was added to its system.

Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

Mechanical tests on the Herschel flight model spacecraft were successfully completed on 3 July 2008.