Satellite News

Iridium Satellite announced that Lee Demitry has joined the company as the executive vice president for Iridium NEXT, the company’s next-generation satellite constellation programme.

NASA has announced plans to use a flotilla of more than 40 high altitude balloons to study radiation in the Earth’s Van Allen Belts.

Thales Alenia Space and NPO-PM are finalising an industrial co-operation agreement to co-develop a high-power telecommunications satellite platform, the two companies said.

On 4 December 2007, GOES-12 (GOES-East) experienced an anomaly in its attitude following a scheduled North-South station keeping manoeuvre. Various attempts to restore GOES-12 to normal on-orbit mode have been unsuccessful.

The launch of the Delta II COSMO SkyMed-2 mission has been delayed to no earlier than 7 December.

NASA has delayed today’s planned launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-122 mission to the International Space Station. The next lift-off opportunity is 7 December at 2109 UTC.