Satellite News

ND SatCom, an SES Astra company, announced that SES acquired a stake in Glocom, a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based system integrator and equipment supplier for turnkey digital broadcasting solutions.

Andrew Corporation said it was adding low-passive intermodulation (PIM) capabilities to many of its satellite antenna products.

Mysterious emissions interfering with its broadcasts have created a huge problem for Israel’s only satellite-based pay-TV operator, Yes, but the culprit may now been found.

The Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman team was the first to successfully complete the last in a series of verification tests of its Next Generation Processor Router (NGPR) performed during the Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment.

NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) will be shut down on 18 October after the agency’s Science Mission Directorate last August decided to terminate the mission.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn’s eight-year, 1.6 billion-kilometer journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.

Australia-based BQT Solutions Limited’s subsidiary BQT Satellites (BQTSAT) said has completed phase 1 of a satellite project that has been awarded to the company in August 2007 by a semi governmental company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Rocket: Soyuz FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-11; Date: 10 October, 1322 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-11 manned transport spacecraft was placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.