Satellite News

Harris Corporation said it has delivered the first 12 of 39 Large Aperture Multiband Deployable Antenna (LAMDA) terminals to be used by the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force for multiband, mobile satellite communications.

General Dynamics C4 Systems announced that it has completed the Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) for all segments of the ground system as well as terminal waveform software of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military’s next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications system.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) valued at US$1.5 million to commence work on a commercial satellite programme.

Spacehab’s Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a one-year contract extension for payload processing services by United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Raytheon Company will lead an industry team in pursuit of the next generation Global Positioning System Control Segment (OCX), a programme to provide command, control, and mission support for current GPS Block II and III satellites as well as support to existing and new interfaces.

China has finished assembling its first lunar satellite probe, Chang’e I, after three years of research and development, Xinhua news agency reported.

For its first launch of the year Arianespace will boost two payloads into orbit: the Skynet 5A military communications satellite for the British Ministry of Defence through Astrium subsidiary Paradigm, and the Insat 4B civil communications satellite for ISRO.

WildBlueCommunications Inc. announced that Mark D. Adolph has joined the company as its chief financial officer. Adolph…