Satellite News

The European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) welcomed an agreement achieved by EU ministers but warned that a new regulatory framework for electronic communications, currently debated in the European Parliament (EP), may “jeopardise the long-term stability of distribution of services provided by satellite operators.”

Elbit Systems Ltd., Israel, announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order dismissing the claim filed last year by certain minority shareholders of ImageSat International N.V.

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio confirmed they were in discussions with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to settle issues related to the compliance of certain radios that include FM transmitters.

Integral Systems, Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008.

Alliant Techsystems said that the constellation of five micro satellites it built for NASA’s THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission has successfully demonstrated how satellites can work together to collect data.

Kayser-Threde GmbH received the prime contract for the space and ground segment as well as launch services for the satellite mission TET-1 from the Space Agency of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Launching in just two months’ time, GOCE – now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA’s test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.