Satellite News

Spanish highway operator abertis confirmed that its subsidiary abertis telecom has been in talks with some of Hispasat’s private investors regarding the acquisition of their stakes.

Alliant Techsystems reported financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2008.

Telesat Canada said it has been unable to activate the Ka-band payload aboard Anik F3.

Integral Systems, Inc. was awarded by the U.S. Air Force a cost plus award fee modification totalling US$5.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programmes.

Maxwell Technologies Inc. has delivered its first space-qualified SCS750 single board computers (SBC) to Orbital Sciences Corp., prime contractor for NASA’s Glory Earth sciences mission.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sirius Satellite Radio announced that SS/L has been awarded a contract from Sirius to build Sirius FM-6, a new, high-power satellite designed to operate in a highly inclined elliptical orbit (HIEO). This satellite will be the sixth SS/L-built spacecraft in the Sirius fleet.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-61 (Progress P26); Date: 2 August 2007, 1934 UTC; Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The spaceship reached orbit nine minutes later.