Satellite News

The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), designed and built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has opened its protective cover. It is one of six science instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down again, reports New Scientist.

Seven more rocket launches are planned at Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by the end of 2006, according to Interfax news agency.

“The $20 Billion Question: Can Satellite and Terrestrial Wireless Co-exist in C-Band?” is the topic of the Global V-Sat Forum’s Sept. 29 Satellite Summit at the University Club, 1135 16th St. NW in Washington, D.C…

International Communications Group (ICG) introduced its Aerocom 1100 cabin telecommunications unit, which provides…

Sirius Satellite Radio announced Sept. 26 the availability of its Stiletto 100, the company’s first portable live radio…

Boeing Co. completed thermal vacuum testing for the first of the Wideband Gapfiller Satellites. The tests, conducted throughout a…

Iridium Satellite reported that the number of ships using its maritime crew calling ship-to-shore service increased by 54 percent…