Satellite News

Indian Space Research Organisation’s satellite-based search and rescue network was used to help save 30 crewmembers from a ship in distress in Sri Lankan…

Aerojet delivered the first of the new-generation propulsion thrusters to NASA’s Glenn Research…

Eutelsat Communications reported a 5.4 percent increase in revenues to 791.1 million euros ($998.1 million) in its 2006 fiscal year, the company announced July 20. Video applications improved 3.4 percent to 528.6 million euros ($670 million) and represented 66.8 percent of Eutelsat’s total revenues. The…

Stratos Global Corp. formed a subsidiary company dedicated to U.S. government customers, the company announced. Stratos Government Services Inc. is a single-source integrator of several commercial satellite…

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced it has been awarded an US$8.6 million contract from an unnamed customer to provide a communications platform for a commercial ground-based satellite beamforming application.

China plans a three-satellite mission to observe solar phenomena, including solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), interplanetary clouds, shock waves, as well as their effects on Earth, such as magnetic storms and auroral activities.

BAE Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) are under contract to deliver the OBC695B processor to control a small RF subsystem that will fly as an experiment on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.

Rocket: Molniya-M/Blok-2BL [Molniya 8K78M 2BL]; Payload: Kosmos 2422; Date: 21 July 2006, 0420 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The military satellite is in stable contact with ground control, according to the Russian Space Forces.