Satellite News

After a significant improvement in the weather conditions at Vandenberg Air Force Base yesterday, the launch team was able to integrate the Jason 2 satellite with the Delta II launcher.
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AMC 14, which did not reach its targeted transfer orbit owing to the failure of a Briz-M upper stage in March, has reportedly been sold to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Aerojet announced shipment of its rocket engines destined for use on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
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Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. has signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat to distribute Intelsat’s Network Broadband Global Maritime service to its maritime customers.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced it space-based AIS payload, launched on the CAN-X2 satellite on 28 April, has validated the advanced space-based AIS performance capability which COM DEV has developed.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, which is currently the main relay for the Phoenix lander, has entered safe mode.
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA’s Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Facility, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission- and safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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WorldSpace Satellite Radio said creditors have agreed to defer until 30 June 2008 the company’s obligation to pay US$17.7 million.
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