Satellite News

Vitaly Lopota, formerly first vice president of the Energia space corporation and its chief designer, has been appointed the company’s new president.
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SES New Skies announced that Afsat, one of Africa’s largest VSAT companies, has contracted additional capacity on the NSS-7 satellite for its ‘iWay’ broadband via satellite services.
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RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. announced its financial results for the three months ending 30 June 2007.
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Sirius Satellite Radio reported financial results for the second quarter 2007.
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Thanks to Space Information Center Belgium, here are some updates regarding the ongoing problems several Latin American countries have with their satellite slots, condensed from local reports.
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Nahuel 1, which is currently being transferred from its former operator Nahuelsat to the Argentinian state-controlled company Arsat, has reportedly developed technical problems with its on-board thrusters. In related news, an attempt to save Argentina’s 81 degrees West slot may not have worked out as planned.
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a US$2.35 billion contract modification as part of a restructuring of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
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Since the Metop-A anomaly observed on 4 July 2007 when the AHRPT transmitter autonomously switched off, investigations with Astrium and ESA/ESTEC remained focussed on the status of the failed AHRPT sub-system, EUMETSAT said.
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