Satellite News

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.

S2M, a provider of mobile entertainment to the Middle East and North Africa, said it signed a formal contract with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the S2M-1 satellite – the first mobile TV satellite covering the Middle East and North Africa.

New analysis from consulting company Frost & Sullivan, “Commercial Geostationary Transponder Markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa,” finds that market earned revenues of US$2,696 million in 2006 and estimates this to reach US$2,951 million in 2011.

The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed the European Union’s 2008 budget worth EUR120.3 billion, including extra funding for the Galileo satellite navigation network.

COM DEV International Ltd. reported financial results for its fiscal year 2007.

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC has been awarded two satellite battery programmes by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC).

S2M, a provider of mobile entertainment to the Middle East and North Africa, said it signed a formal contract with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the S2M-1 satellite – the first mobile TV satellite covering the Middle East and North Africa.