Satellite News

As of 1 February 2007, Intelsat will change the names of 16 of its 51 satellites, mainly as a consequence of the company’s acquisition of PanAmSat.

Scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have met a critical milestone in the development of aerocapture technology, a manoeuvre that primarily uses a planet’s atmosphere to capture a spacecraft and place it in the desired orbit.

Space Micro Inc. announced that its Proton100k Space Computer was launched successfully aboard the TacSat-2 Satellite on 16 December.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract valued at approximately US$50 million to execute a System Design Review for the next generation Global Positioning System space segment programme, known as GPS Block III.

Eutelsat Communications and Alcatel Alenia Space have signed a contract under which Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture and deliver Eutelsat’s W7 communications satellite.

Several tiny satellites were released from the payload bay of space shuttle Discovery today as part of NASA’s Space Test Program-H2 (STP-H2).

XM Satellite Radio announced Dec. 19 that Joan Lordi Amble has…

David Stone, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has been named to the board of directors…