Satellite News

Carl A. Marchetto was named by Orbital Sciences Corporation as the new Executive Vice President and General Manager of its largest business unit, the Space Systems Group.

Telenor Satellite Services has purchased the satellite communications activities of Norse Technology AS and additionally has acquired the majority of stock in Norwegian-based Norse Electronics AS.

SAT Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. , announced that it has delivered its digital spectrum analyser SAT-DSA to London Satellite Exchange (LSE).

SpaceDev, Inc. has been authorised by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to proceed with Phase III of its Distributed Sensing Experiment programme.

Boeing’s work on 12 GPS IIF navigation satellites is over budget and at least 16 months behind schedule because of management problems, the U.S. Air Force said.