Satellite News

Arab Satellite Communications Organisation (ArabSat) has signed a strategic agreement with Saudi Hollandi Bank for an Islamic facility that will secure Arabsat’s expansion over the next five years.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has been delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation for a July 2008 launch.

NASA recently approved the retargeting of the EPOXI mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program managers have targeted 10 January for the launch of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-122 mission to the International Space Station.

Rocket: Soyuz-FG/Fregat; Payload: Radarsat 2; Date: 14 December 2007, 1314 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch service provider Starsem and its Russian partners confirmed that the Fregat upper stage accurately injected the satellite into the targeted low Earth orbit at 798 km altitude.