Satellite News

Boeing Co. has shipped the Measat-3 communications satellite to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a scheduled Dec. 11 launch aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton…

Raytheon Company, in partnership with Hamilton Sundstrand, successfully demonstrated the capabilities of its MicroLight networked, communications and navigation system at NASA’s recent desert research and technical studies annual demonstration.

A delegation of scientists and engineers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, recently visited the University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) to finalise design elements of an X-ray camera developed at Leicester for inclusion in Astrosat, India’s first national astronomy satellite.

The Canadian Space Agency is currently hosting the Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop.

Two residents of the International Space Station during a spacewalk have failed to move the stuck Kurs antenna, which had delayed the docking of the Progress M58 vessel in October 2006.

On 30 November, the P80 main stage of Europe’s new small launcher Vega will undergo a maiden test firing at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Satguard Asia announced the launch of its latest GPS-based vehicle security and tracking devices designed to bring the technology within the reach…

Norsat International Inc. has announced fulfilling a follow-on order from the United States Air Force for the supply of additional portable…