Satellite News

Saab AB said it divests 100 percent of the shares in Saab Space AB, including its subsidiary Austrian Aerospace, to Swiss company RUAG Holding AG. The divestment requires approval of competition authorities before completion.

Only shortly after Russia denied last April that its Kosmos 2421 military satellite had disintegrated, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detected two fragmentation events that created a total of about 200 large, new parts of debris.

Raytheon Company said it is leading a team to complete the final phase of India’s Global Positioning Satellite-Aided Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation System, or GAGAN.

Russia has taken ownership of the Okno space tracking station in Tajikistan. In exchange, it has forgiven the former Soviet republic’s debt.

NASA recently selected a University of Central Florida project that will measure the temperature and make-up of the Earth’s outer atmosphere as one of two missions of opportunity under its Explorer science space programme.

SES Astra has awarded the construction of a new satellite, Astra 1N, to EADS Astrium.