Satellite News

EMS Technologies, Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its EMS Wireless division to Andrew Corporation.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced that they have completed the transaction combining their expendable launch vehicle businesses, forming the 50-50 joint venture called United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA).

KT Corp. said its Koreasat-5, also known as Mugunghwa-5, has started its commercial operation.

ESA’s Envisat satellite and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) geostationary data relay test satellite Kodama have successfully completed an interoperability test demonstrating that scientific data from Envisat can be transmitted to Kodama and from there transmitted to the Japanese ground receiving station in Tsukuba.

Specialists at the Mission Control Centre based near Moscow have decided not to conduct another ISS orbit correction on 2 December but possibly later, Itar-Tass news agency reports. A problem with an ISS circuit breaker has meanwhile been traced back to a software glitch and is not expected to affect the upcoming shuttle mission to the station.

The largest European single-segment filament-wound case solid propellant motor ever developed successfully completed its first static firing test at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana.

Futron Corp. on Nov. 30 announced its appointment of Peggy Slye as director of its space and telecommunications division…

The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and iDirect Technologies have entered into an agreement to produce…