Satellite News

Australia celebrated the 40th anniversary of the launching of its first satellite.

Globecomm Network Services Corporation (GNSC) has been awarded a blanket indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at up to US$10 million from an unnamed global multilateral organisation.

Eutelsat Communications said it has inked a contract for capacity on its Atlantic Bird 3 satellite with Telediffusion d’Algerie (TDA) to broadcast Algeria’s national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) package of television and radio channels.

Spain is blocking a deal on dividing up contracts on the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation project as it seeks a key role in the project, European sources said according to news reports.

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC announced it has shipped its first two orders for lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries to Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC).

COM DEV International Ltd. been awarded a contract to provide advanced payload electronics for a major commercial satellite constellation.

The second of two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS, formerly SBIRS Low) demonstration satellites being built by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing.

Spacehab, Incorporated said it has submitted a formal proposal response to NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Phase 1 Demonstrations Request for Proposal (RFP) based on the Advanced Research and Conventional Technology Utilisation Spacecraft (ARCTUS) design.