Satellite News

GeoEye announced the final payment on the US$50 million credit facility that it drew down in January 2006 to fund the acquisition of the assets of Space Imaging.

Integral Systems, Inc. announced the award by the U.S. Air Force of a US$4.5 million cost plus award fee modification to the CCS-C (Command and Control System-Consolidated) effort to support the WGS [Wideband Global SATCOM (Satellite Communications)] Program.

Lockheed Martin announced that the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft bus has successfully completed engineering thermal vacuum testing at its facilities in Sunnyvale, California/USA.

It looks increasingly likely that Israel will use a foreign vehicle to launch its radar spy satellite TechSAR, at least according to a report by Globes. The leading candidate is an Indian PSLV. This has been reported before, but the new Globes article may shed some light on Israel’s decision not to use its own Shavit 1 to launch the spacecraft.