Satellite News

SES S.A. reported financial results for the year 2007.

Indian telecom firm Reliance Communications (RCom) has booked capacity on Measat-3.

There are indications that the U.S. Navy will try to shoot down the failed NRO-L21 (USA 193) satellite sooner rather than later – possibly just hours after space shuttle Atlantis has landed on 20 February.

Iranian officials said the launch of the country’s Kavoshgar (Explorer) sounding rocket earlier this month had been successful.

Alliant Techsystems received a contract modification from NASA valued at US$812.5 million for the continued production and refurbishment of four-segment reusable solid rocket motors (RSRM) for the space shuttle programme.

JAXA’s super high-speed Internet satellite Kizuna (or Wideband Inter-Networking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite, WINDS) will be launched no earlier than 23 February (local time), the agency announced.