Satellite News

Rising launch costs have made Bigelow Aerospace scrap its Galaxy subscale test spacecraft and instead move ahead with the company’s first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer.

Shin Satellite PCL said it expected to complete building IPSTAR ground stations in India by September and launch services there in the fourth quarter.

Boeing Service Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, has been awarded a US$30 million firm-fixed-price contract to continue providing Boeing Broadband Satcom Network (BBSN) service to the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command.

The International Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission determined that Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC (MSV) has met the beginning physical milestone associated with the authorisation for the construction of the MSV-1 satellite.

Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ending 30 June 2007.

NASA’s Swift gamma ray observatory has been put in safe mode after problems occurred with the spacecraft’s attitude control on 10 August.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, the prime contractor for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS, formerly SBIRS-Low) announced the successful completion of two significant ground system milestones.

During a spacewalk, two astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour removed and replaced a gyroscope that failed in late 2006.