Satellite News

Spacehab, Incorporated announced that it has received notification from NASDAQ that the company has been granted an additional 180-day period, or until 1 October 2007, to regain compliance with NASDAQ’s US$1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement.

Scientists and engineers from the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA are moving forward in planning a successor to the Landsat 7 satellite mission.

Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed on-schedule a system design review of the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System Space Segment programme, known as GPS Block III.

Russia will put three new communication satellites into orbit this year and another two next year, an official with the Russian Satellite Communications company (RSCC) said.

A Proton M/Briz M is to launch Anik F3 on 9 April, 2254 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

A Russian early warning satellite has stopped working, leaving the country with just two operational spacecraft of this type, according to the russianforces.org web site.

A small Russian experimental satellite stopped working last month, which has now led to speculation in the country’s media that it could have been killed by the U.S. military — intentionally or not.