Satellite News

SES New Skies has concluded a multi-year agreement with Global Broadcasting and Multimedia Inc. (GBMI), Samoa.
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A United Launch Alliance Delta II vehicle will launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission on the Jason-2 satellite (OSTM/Jason-2) for NASA from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 20 June at 1946 UTC.
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Boeing plans to compete for contracts connected with the European satellite navigation system Galileo, German financial newspaper Handelsblatt reported, quoting a company spokeswoman.
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Russia’s TsSKB Progress said it has started preparing equipment to be sent to the planned Soyuz launch site in French Guiana.
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Kazakhstan’s KazSat 1 communications satellite, which went out of control on 8 June following a computer glitch, likely is a total loss, Kazakh space officials said. They blamed the manufacturer’s “experimental” Yakhta platform for the failure.
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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at 1515 UTC on Saturday, 14 June, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, completing a 14-day journey of more than 9.1 million in space.
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China Central Television (CCTV), the national broadcaster of the People’s Republic of China, renewed a multi-year contract on Intelsat’s Galaxy 3C satellite for Ku-band capacity to distribute its regional direct-to-home (DTH) services in the United States.
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Intelsat, Ltd. announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has signed a multi-transponder deal for the video carriage of the 2008 Summer Games to Europe.
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