Satellite News

The first of six Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman Corporation completed 25 years of successful on-orbit operations on 4 April.
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WorldSpace Satellite Radio announced that its independent registered public accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP, expressed doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern based on its current financial resources.
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EADS Astrium has entered into an agreement to acquire Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). Completion of the acquisition is subject to obtaining the relevant regulatory approval.
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A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has completed a rapid on-orbit deployment of the modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite launched on 15 March from Cape Canaveral.
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC said it successfully activated the first HughesNet consumer subscriber for broadband Internet service utilising its Spaceway 3 satellite on 3 April 2008.
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GIOVE-B, the second experimental satellite for the Galileo satellite navigation system will be launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on 27 April after a year-long delay, the European Commission announced. Also, EU transport ministers have reached a compromise on the management of the system.
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Russia’s Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully de-orbited over the South Pacific, a mission control spokesman said.
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