Satellite News

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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Loral Space & Communications Inc. announced that, owing to the delayed filing of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2007, the company has received a letter from the Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that the company no longer satisfies NASDAQ’s filing requirement, and that the company’s securities are subject to delisting from NASDAQ.
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COM DEV International Ltd. said that it has been awarded an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) from an Asian customer for work on a major subsystem of an instrument that will fly on a future Earth observation satellite.
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ProtoStar Ltd. announced the closing of US$245 million of debt and equity financing to complete the on-going development and launch of its second satellite.
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India has set a tentative launch date for the Cartosat-2A reconnaissance satellite, according to earlier reports the country’s first dedicated military satellite.
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