Satellite News

Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) said it was awarded two Canadian patents and two Australian patents that protect essential aspects of MSV’s mobile satellite services (MSS) and ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology.

Spacehab, Incorporated announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 ending 30 June 2007.

The U.S. Air Force announced that the payload equipment module of the Flight 3 Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California and safely arrived at Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, California, on 14 September.

Brazil received the first signals from the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS-2B), the country’s National Satellite Control Space Research Agency (INPE) said.

Boeing Launch Services has been awarded a contract to launch the third COSMO-SkyMed commercial satellite for Thales Alenia Space Italia, the prime contractor of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Japanese operator JSAT Corporation has chosen Arianespace to launch its JCSAT-12 communications satellite, the replacement for JCSAT-11 that was lost in the crash of a Proton M/Briz M earlier this month.