Satellite News

Alliant Techsystems has been selected by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of the Orion prime contractor team, led by Lockheed Martin , to provide the attitude control motor (ACM) for NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle launch abort system (LAS).
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Sea Launch’s prime contractor for launch system ground support, the Design Bureau for Transport Machinery (DBTM) of Moscow, Russia, has completed fabrication of a new gas deflector for the Zenit-3SL launch system.
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RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. will broadcast the Soundtrack Channel to the United States, RRSat announced July 19. The…
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Conditional access and middleware vendor Irdeto is offering a prepaid solution to its customers under a partnership…
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Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) will launch an Internet Protocol (IP) trunking DVB-S2 platform service in September for the African market, the company announced…
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A Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft has been flown for the first time without using navigation gyros, the U.S. Air Force announced July 19. DMSP F15, launched in…
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Virgin America airline and EchoStar Communications Corp. will offer an 18-channel programming package starting Aug. 8 to afford passengers live, in-flight satellite entertainment, the companies announced July 20. Programming will…
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received the large business, “Supplier of the Year” award from United Space Alliance (USA) for excellent work by the company’s space shuttle star tracker team.
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