Satellite News

TerreStar Corporation announced that it had sold its remaining 29,926,074 shares of non-voting common stock of SkyTerra Communications, Inc. for a total of approximately US$123 million in a series of transactions.

A Lockheed Martin /Northrop Grumman team has successfully tested a high performance deployable radiator system to meet the stringent mission requirements of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) constellation.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has successfully completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

The Russian unmanned resupply spacecraft Progress M-65 docked with the International Space Station, four days late due to Hurricane Ike, Interfax news agency reported.

Telesat announced that its Nimiq 4 satellite will launch on 19 September, 2148 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Republic of Kazakhstan.