Satellite News

Orbital Sciences Corp. will design and build the next-generation NASA Orion Abort Test Booster for NASA and the U.S. Air Force Space Development and Test Wing, the company announced April 11. Orbital will develop, build and test a new booster…

ViaSat Inc. received a contract to develop the satellite ground equipment for a planned satellite network upgrade for the U.S. Army’s Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue Force Tracking system, ViaSat…

Spacehab, Incorporated announced plans to develop a new company division that will focus on manufacturing pharmaceuticals and materials in space for distribution into the commercial marketplace.

Alcatel Alenia Space will be renamed following the transfer of Alcatel-Lucent’s space business to Thales, but will keep its President and CEO.

Intelsat General Corp. has been selected for an industry-government collaboration to demonstrate the viability of conducting military communications through an Internet router in space.

Intelsat has issued a statement with regard to what it called “the unauthorised use of one of its satellites by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lanka-based terrorist group.”

Thanks to a common spacecraft architecture and use of standardised mission control software, spacecraft controllers from the Mars Express and Venus Express Flight Control Teams (FCTs) are now able to work in tandem, each providing support to both missions and boosting team co-operation.

NASA and NOAA announced a plan to restore a key ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) programme.