Satellite News

SES Astra has signed a new contract for its interactive TV service Blucom for the Arab World.

SES Astra has signed a new contract for its interactive TV service Blucom for the Arab World.

Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) officials played down the importance of a termination letter sent to the company by NASA, saying it did not represent a final decision by NASA to terminate the company’s COTS contract. But more trouble could be ahead.

Alliant Techsystems announced that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded the company a US$3.3 million contract, with options worth an additional US$4.7 million, to develop a multi-mode propulsion system for small spacecraft.

Arianespace has won a French government contract to launch four satellites to map radar stations as part of the ELISA demonstration project.

Rocket: Kosmos 3M; Payload: Kosmos 2429; Date: 11 September 2007, likely around 0100 UTC (no exact time available yet); Site: Plesetsk, Russia.