Satellite News

NASA is targeting 31 May as the launch date for shuttle Discovery’s STS-124 mission to deliver the large Japanese Kibo Pressurised Module to the International Space Station. The lift-off time is approximately 2101 UTC.
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United Launch Alliance has won a US$124.1 million Air Force contract to supply launch services using the Atlas V rocket.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has entered into a definitive merger agreement for the company to be acquired by a consortium of private equity investors that includes The Gores Group LLC, Mivtach Shamir Holdings Ltd., companies affiliated with Roy Ben-Yami, Ami Lustig and Eytan Stibbe and DGB Investments, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately US$475 million.
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Orbcomm Inc. has received a modified space station authorisation from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approving its next-generation Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation plan.
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COM DEV International Ltd. said it has successfully completed an end-to-end ground-based test of its advanced AIS payload and nanosatellite. The company also provided an update on its acquisition of the Passive Microwave Devices product line from L-3 Communications.
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Boeing has submitted a proposal to NASA for the production of two next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, known as the GOES R series, for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Spacecom’s newest satellite, Amos-3, has completed testing and has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan.
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Navigating for the first time with a laser-based optical system, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) today moved to within just 11 metres of the ISS’ docking port, ESA said. An escape manoeuvre then concluded this second day of tests in orbit.
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