Satellite News

Loral Space & Communications Inc. reported its financial results for the third quarter 2006.

Intelsat, Ltd. reported results for the three-month period ending 30 September 2006.

Spacehab, Incorporated announced that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a US$20.0 million contract to design and build a payload processing facility for the U.S. Government, Office of Space Launch.

SciSys, a provider of software services, has announced a major contract from EADS Astrium GmbH to develop on-board satellite software for CryoSat-2.

An official from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies has said that the Baku government is preparing a national communications satellite project.

NASA officials are increasingly pessimistic about the chances to re-establish contact with Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), according to several reports.

Optus D1, launched in October, has not been manufactured properly and engineers are scrambling to fix the problem, according to reports from New Zealand.