Satellite News

AsiaSat 5 recently successfully completed reference performance testing of the payload and bus subsystems. The spacecraft has been undergoing thermal vacuum testing for a month, and is in the process of completing the last thermal vacuum testing.

An enhanced Proton M launch vehicle is to lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite on board on 18 August, 2243 UTC.

Rocket: Ariane 5ECA; Payload: AMC 21, Superbird 7; Date: 14. August 2008, 2044 UTC; Site: Kourou, French Guiana. The two satellites were successfully placed in geostationary transfer orbit.

New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch of a test flight vehicle for Lockheed Martin by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America on 12 August.

Intelsat announced two contract renewals regarding capacity on various Galaxy satellites.

Intelsat, Ltd. reported results for the three-month period which ended 30 June 2008i.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Protoflight Model (PFM) that will fly aboard the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has entered final integration and acceptance testing.

Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2008.