Satellite News

Bruce Henoch has joined Stratos Global Corp. as vice president for legal and regulatory affairs, the company announced Feb. 7…

Australian direct-to-home operators Foxtel and Austar have signed a four-year rights deal to broadcast…

Anaren Inc. will develop and produce the integrated beamforming assemblies for the Globalstar-2 satellite payload, Anaren announced Feb. 7. The…

Iridium Satellite has appointed eight new value-added partners offering Iridium-based products and services for remote asset management and other machine-to-machine data applications, Iridium announced Feb. 9. Among new resellers are…

Sea Launch’s Odyssey launch platform lost its flame deflector and the aft doors of the hangar have been knocked off their supports, the company announced Feb. 9. The flame deflector is located below the launch pad, while the hangar houses and protects the transporter-erector support structure during launch…

Five weather and space environmental sensors onboard the recently launched Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite DMSP F-17 have been switched on and are operating successfully, according to Northrop Grumman Corporation, the U.S. Air Force’s DMSP sensor management contractor.

NASA’s astrophysics programme has achieved the agency’s highest priority goals by focusing on large missions such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes but in doing so, it has squeezed out smaller missions that could be laying the foundation for future scientific discovery, says a new report from the U.S. National Research Council.

Launch of NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft is scheduled for 15 February from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch window is 2308 to 2326 UTC, a duration of 18 minutes.