Satellite News

The planned Chinese space launch centre in Wenchang, Hainan Province, has finally been approved by the country’s government and military, state media reported.

The winners of the 2007 Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) Awards are Dr. Dumrong Kasemset and Jean-Yves Le Gall.

Universal Space Network, Inc. (USN), a leading provider of commercial space operations and ground station services, announced that it is expanding its network of satellite ground stations in Hawaii and Australia in response to growing customer demand for low-latitude ground station services.

Hardly surprising, a plan by the EU Commission to pay for the construction of the Galileo navsat system from surplus EU funds has met strong opposition, especially from the UK and Germany — although for partially different reasons.

NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe.

Following the autonomous switch off of the Metop-A payload at 0605 UTC on 17 September 2007 recovery activities have been successful and all instruments have been recovered to measurement mode.

The planned launch of an Israeli spy satellite aboard an Indian rocket remains somewhat mysterious. No launch date has been announced, and it’s even unclear whether the rocket will carry another payload.

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.