Satellite News

The team from Indian Space Research Organisation which successfully realised the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) mission that launched Cartosat-2 as well as the team that deployed and recovered Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) have been awarded the Team Achievement Award of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

The Space Foundation announced the publication of the white paper “ITAR and the U.S. Space Industry.” The paper examines the effect of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which govern the export of space technology.

EchoStar Corporation and its EchoStar Satellite Services announced that it has entered into an agreement with SkyWay USA LLC to provide transponder service to support SkyWay USA’s satellite broadband Internet service.

GMV announced it will provide support to The Hammers company for a US$14.9 million contract with NASA to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE).

Pre-launch activities for Astra 1M – a commercial telecommunications satellite built by EADS Astrium for SES Astra – aboard a Khrunichev-built Proton M have begun at Baikonur.

On the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to France, Astrium has signed a long term agreement with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on utilisation of the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launch services.

The Rokot Briz-KM launch vehicle with ESA’s GOCE satellite on board is scheduled for launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 8 October 2008 at 1421:17 UTC. Lift-off was delayed a month because of a problem with the launch vehicle’s upper stage.

The launch of Thailand’s THEOS aboard a Dnepr rocket has now been scheduled for 1 October.