Satellite News

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reported that at today’s meeting of shareholders to consider the proposed sale of its Information Systems and Geospatial Services business, over 99.9 percent of voting shareholders approved the transaction.

Orbcomm Inc. , a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ending 31 December 2007.

European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV (EADS) reported results for the year 2007.

Vinasat-1, the second of two commercial telecommunications satellite passengers for Arianespace’s next heavy-lift Ariane 5 flight, has finally arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Following an overnight recovery operation, Jules Verne ATV’s propulsion system has successfully been restored to full robustness. The spacecraft has since performed the first orbital manoeuvres necessary to set up phasing with the International Space Station.

Space shuttle Endeavour was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 0628 UTC and beginning the STS-123 mission to the International Space Station.

This collection of images shows space shuttle Endeavour’s middle-of-the-night launch Tuesday. The ship soared from pad 39A and disappeared into a low deck of clouds over the launch site a half-minute after liftoff.

Two days after an electronics box cut off a quarter of a European space station resupply ship’s propulsion system, controllers successfully revived the suspect command chain and tested its ability to work properly during a series of engine firings Tuesday.