Satellite News

Wind River Systems, Inc. announced that it has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA’s New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor.
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ESA will take a 15-percent stake in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) under an agreement with NASA signed today. The agencies will also co-operate on the LISA Pathfinder mission.
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The United States’ first autonomous satellite servicing demonstration has resumed unmated demonstration activities as the Orbital Express mission between Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Next Generation Satellite and Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC), and Boeing’s Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter (ASTRO,) continues its three month mission.
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Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated the spacecraft propulsion core structure and the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite.
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Boeing has completed integration and test of the U.S. Air Force’s first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite (f.k.a. Wideband Gapfiller Satellite).
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ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a EUR229 million (US$307 million) contract for the design and development of Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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Ukraine plans to launch its Sich-2 Earth remote sensing satellite in 2008, the National Space Agency said on its web site.
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SES announced two satellite launch vehicle contracts covering the majority of the satellite launch requirements for the SES group in the period 2009-2013.
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