Satellite News

Calian Technologies Ltd. said its SED division has received a contract valued at approximately C$10 million (EUR7.0 million, US$9.5 million) from Inmarsat to develop Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) for its new I-4 Earth station in Paumalu, Hawaii.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a contract for the study phase of a potential joint US-UK lunar orbiter mission to be called Magnolia.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ITT Corporation and DigitalGlobe announced delivery of its WorldView-1 satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for its scheduled launch on 18 September 2007.

China may have to delay the launch of its Chang’e I moon probe, tentatively scheduled for September, because of a rather unusual reason–a ship collision.

NASA has signed a US$1.8 billion contract with Alliant Techsystems, known as ATK, for the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the first stage of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles.