Satellite News

Telecommunications company PT Indosat will soon open a tender to build a new telecommunications satellite, Antara news agency reports.

China may have set a new, questionable world (or space?) record by destroying its defunct Fengyun 1C (FY-1C) weather satellite in an anti satellite (ASAT) weapon test. In related news, the country announced (or threatened?) to launch more weather satellites.

Unchanged unfavourable conditions at the equatorial launch site have forced Sea Launch to once more delay lift-off of its Zenit-3SL with NSS-8 on board.

NASA said its engineers are examining a problem related to the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument has shut down the third time within six months.

Russia and India signed two cooperation agreements Jan. 25 for Russia’s global space navigation system, Glonass, to be used by Moscow’s longtime partner in the military- technical sector. Glonass, a Russian version of the…

Savi Networks has extended its SaviTrak real-time cargo-tracking information service to key terminal…

XM Satellite Radio and American Honda Motor Co. launched a satellite radio trial program for Honda Certified Used Cars with…

Iran is poised to launch a satellite, a capability which would add to Tehran’s strategic options, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency on Jan. 26. A recently…