Satellite News

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.

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.