Satellite News

Since early 2005, SEISOP (Space Environment Information System for Operations), a space-weather monitoring and forecasting tool under development at ESA’s Space Operations Centre, has been successfully providing near-real-time space weather reports for Integral, ESA’s gamma-ray space observatory. In 2007, SEISOP will enter operational development aimed at providing all ESA missions with the same vital space weather updates, the agency said.

Several Russian institutes plan to launch small experimental satellites, officials said at a conference devoted to space exploration at the Bauman state technical university in Moscow.

NASA officials approved critical elements of a moon impact mission scheduled to launch in October 2008. NASA’s unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will strike the moon near its south pole in January 2009 in order to search for water and other materials,

One of the telecommunications systems aboard the recently launched Japanese experimental satellite Kiku No. 8 (ETS VIII) so far couldn’t be activated.

Harris Corp. completed a pair of milestones for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program, Harris announced. Harris…

See World Satellites Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FTS Group Inc., expects to post an increase of 35 percent to 38 percent in year-over-year top line sales for the month of January, FTS announced…

French direct-to-home operator Canalsat ended 2006, its final year of competition with rival TPS, with nearly 3.5 million subscribers, a net increase of…

Norsat International Inc. has received an order from Global TV to supply a turnkey satellite newsgathering system, Norsat…