Satellite News

Telenor Satellite Services and Verso Technologies have been selected by NASA to provide digital voice and data satellite communications equipment and service to all of its Trans Atlantic Landing Sites.

WorldSpace Satellite Radio announced results for the fourth quarter of 2006 and year ending 31 December 2006.

SpaceDev has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in response to the Operationally Responsive Space Payload Technology Broad Agency Announcement.

In contrast to earlier reports, Russia plans to launch six Uragan satellites this year instead of three.

Mubadala Development Company of the United Arab Emirates plans to launch its first satellite, YahSat, in 2009.

The launch of a Dnepr rocket from Baikonur with a cluster of small satellites may be postponed until mid-April, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said.

Delays are nothing unusual in the space industry, but this one may have the potential for a new record. The first test flight of Russia’s yet-to-be-developed Angara rocket has been postponed to 2011, at least ten years later than originally planned.

The New Horizon Pluto probe recently went into safe mode after a memory problem but was recovered within two days.