Satellite News

OHB Technology Group, Germany, has acquired 19 percent of SpaceDev Inc., USA.

Industry Canada has approved the acquisition of Telesat Canada by Loral Space & Communications Inc. and its Canadian partner, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments).

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.

The European Commission has proposed funding the troubled multi-billion-euro satellite navigation project Galileo wholly from unused EU funds, rather than with money from private industry or member states.

ECAPS, a joint venture of the Swedish Space Corporation and Volvo, has delivered a HPGP (High Performance Green Propulsion) system to SSC for the Prisma satellite mission.

International Launch Services (ILS) has established its independent Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) that will review the results of the Russian State Commission’s investigation into the Proton launch vehicle failure on 6 September.

The University of South Australia, responsible for day-to-day operation of Australia’s experimental FedSat, says it has lost contact with the satellite.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter is returning the healthy spacecraft to usual activities after the orbiter entered safe mode on 14 September.