Satellite News

Telenor Satellite Services has received a modification to its existing U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) contract expanding the variety and types of satellite services available to all United States government agencies and authorised government contractors.

General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics , has been selected by ND SatCom Defence GmbH of Friedrichshafen, Germany, to supply strategic and tactical antennas and radio support equipment to the German Armed Forces SATCOMBw Step 2 programme.

Boeing Co. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2006.

There’s good news for JAXA/ISAS’ troubled Hayabusa asteroid sample return probe, which was launched 2003 on a mission that turned out to be plagued by a host of problems.

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle was destroyed along with its payload, SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite, in an explosion shortly after the ignition of the rocket’s main engine on 30 January, 2322 UTC.