Satellite News

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., will provide a carrier monitoring and interference detection system to SES…

Quake Global announced Dec. 6 that Volvo Trucks North America will install Quake Global’s Q2000+ satellite…

Space Communications Ltd. has sold more than 50 percent of the total capacity on its Amos-3 satellite, which is slated for launch in the third quarter of 2007, the company announced. Some existing…

Orbital Sciences Corp. has formed a partnership with Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology of Alexandria, Va., to develop a small satellite that will be built entirely by high school students, Orbital announced Dec. 6. The mission for TJ-Sat will be determined by the students, who…

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a 14-month, $8.4 million phase-two study contract by the U.S. Air Force for further work on the Enhanced Polar System (EPS) satellite communications program, the company announced. The study is designed to assist the Air Force in defining a payload for next-generation…

LogicaCMG is to develop computer software to be used for the Galileo satellite navigation system under three new contracts totalling EUR7.4 million (US$9.8 million).

Satellite system suppliers UDcast, On Call Communications and Intelsat said that they are providing the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with high performance disaster recovery communications systems.

Space Exploration Technologies’ second attempt to launch its Falcon 1 rocket was postponed to January or February 2007, the company’s CEO Elon Musk said.