Satellite News

ESA member states participating in the GMES Programme have approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme.

“I remember explaining that to my teacher.” — NASA Administrator Dr. Michael D. Griffin, 58, about the launch of Sputnik 1 fifty years ago

U.S. telecommunications company AT&T has offered to buy satellite pay-TV operator EchoStar, according to an article from TheStreet.com.

The flight tests of a new-generation satellite intended to detect ballistic missile launches are to begin in 2009, Russian Space Troops Commander Col-Gen Vladimir Popovkin was quoted as saying.

Rocket: Delta II Heavy 7925-H; Payload: Dawn; Date: 27 September 2007, 1134 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Following a nominal one hour and two minute flight, the rocket deployed the spacecraft on its eight-year mission to study Ceres and Vesta, two asteroids residing in the vast asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

GeoEye, Inc. said it has secured approximately US$270 million of launch and first-year on-orbit insurance for its next-generation GeoEye-1 satellite.

Spanish satellite ground segment software company GMV said it launched SmartRings 2.0, the latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, SmartRings.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed two significant milestones for the Kepler Mission: the precision coating process of Kepler’s primary mirror, and the integration of the detector array assembly.