Satellite News

The DirecTV Group, Inc. today reported third quarter financial results.

Turksat will launch its new telecommunication satellite Turksat 3A (a.k.a. Turksat 1R) in April next year, Anatolia news agency reported.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world’s first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer Kaguya (SELENE), which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on 18 October 2007.

China’s first lunar probe, Chang’e-1, completed its nearly two-million-km journey to the moon successfully and has entered its science orbit.

Arianespace will launch two satellites into orbit on its fifth launch of the year: the Skynet 5B military communications satellite for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), through the Astrium company Paradigm and the Star One C1 commercial communications satellite for Brazilian operator Star One, as part of a turnkey contract with Thales Alenia Space.

The space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centerat 1801 UTC after completing a 15-day journey of more than 9.9 million km in space. Discovery’s STS-120 mission added a key component to the International Space Station and featured an unprecedented spacewalk to repair a damaged solar array.