Satellite News

Irvin Aerospace was selected by Jacobs Sverdrup for NASA to develop parachutes for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).

Orbcomm Inc. announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,230,800 shares of common stock.

ITT Corporation was one of two successful bidders for a contract from the GPS Wing of the U.S. Air Force to begin development of a Modernised Space Receiver (MSR).

Now that all the instruments carried on MetOp-A have been successfully switched on, the first Level-1b images from the MHS instrument, which measures atmospheric humidity and temperature, and the first Earthshine spectra from the ozone monitoring instrument GOME-2 have been acquired.

QinetiQ said it was launching a European satellite interference geo-location service. This service will assist in the fight against malicious or accidental disruption to satellite communications services.

Russia has agreed to pay US$1.1 million (EUR865,000) in compensation for the damage caused by the crash of a Dnepr rocket in Kazakhstan last July.