Satellite News

Northern Sky Research (NSR) has released its newest market survey and forecast report “Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 3rd Edition: A Demand-Driven, Region-Specific Analysis of the Commercial Geostationary Satellite Transponder Market for 2005-2011.”

Harris Corporation has successfully completed the cut-over of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) legacy satellite network, FAATSAT, to the new FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) satellite network, or FTI-SAT.

Twelve of Turksat 2A’s 34 transponders have failed because of technical defects such as overheating, Turkish newspaper Zaman Daily reports.

JAXA’s Hinode (formerly Solar-B) satellite has reported its first observations of the Sun with its suite of scientific instruments.

Launch preparation is well underway in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, for the launch of Badr-4, a Eurostar E2000+ satellite built by Astrium for the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation (Arabsat).

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has given the green light for a fifth servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Servicing Mission 4 (SM-4) is to extend and improve the observatory’s capabilities through 2013.

Rocket: Zenit 3SL/Block DM-SL; Payload: XM-4 ‘Blues’; Date: 30 October, 2349 UTC; Launch Site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West Longitude in the Pacific Ocean. All systems performed nominally throughout the flight.