Satellite News

Over the past few weeks, three geostationary satellites suddenly went out of control and started drifting slowly, theoretically posing the risk of a collision with operational satellites in the same orbit. The most problematic of these errant satellites is DSP 23 (a.k.a. USA 197), a Reuters report suggests.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in autumn 2011.

NASA announced that space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch on 12 May 2009.

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said it has upgraded ground satellite control and monitoring system to support the new Ekspress-AM44 and Ekspress-MD1 telecommunications satellites.

The German military commissioned its first radar spy satellite system, SAR Lupe, on 4 December.

The headline “Iridium Satellite LLC results Q3 2009″ should have read “Iridium Satellite LLC results Q3 2008.”