Satellite News

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.

Northrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite to prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman announced. The Lockheed…

ICO Global Communications Ltd. (ICO) has been granted milestone extensions for the construction and launch of its ICO G1 satellite, the company announced Feb. 5. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the company’s request to extend the dates outlined in ICO’s authorization for…

The Swedish-led Prisma satellite system has successfully passed a critical design review (CDR). The CDR was hosted at Swedish Space Corp. (SSC)’s Engineering Center in Stockholm and included SSC engineers and other experts. With design…

Worldspace Satellite Radio, a global satellite-based digital radio services provider, has licensed Certicom’s conditional access system to secure its satellite digital radio…

Globecomm Systems Inc. reported recorded revenues of $36.7 million in its 2007 second quarter, up from $29.9 million in the same period a year ago, the company announced Feb. 7. Net income jumped from $900,000 a year ago to $1.8 million in the most…

DirecTV Group Inc. posted a profit of $1.4 billion on revenues of $14.8 billion, the company announced Feb. 7. In 2005, DirecTV attributed the revenue gains to subscriber growth at DirecTV U.S. and DirecTV Latin America as well as continued growth in average revenue per user (ARPU) at DirecTV U.S., and the…