Satellite News

ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd., which last week won a US$370.6 million verdict against Boeing Co. over a failed agreement to build a satellite network, asked a jury for an additional US$949 million in punitive damages. Boeing says it’s punished enough already.

WorldSpace, Inc. has received notice from the staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC that the company will be delisted.

Lockheed Martin has successfully completed acoustic testing of the first geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) spacecraft in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) programme.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its Montreal operation has signed a contract in excess of C$6 million (EUR3.7 million, US$4.6 million) with EADS Astrium for an antenna subsystem for Eutelsat’s KA-SAT satellite.

The solar array problems with certain Lockheed-Martin-built satellites continue and have affected a third SES satellite.

SES S.A. reported financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2008.

Rocket: Delta II 7420-10; Payload: COSMO-SkyMed 3 [COSMO 3]; Date: 25 October 2008, 0228 UTC; Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The spacecraft was deployed to low-Earth orbit approximately 58 minutes after lift-off.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Shijian 6-3A, Shijian 6-3B [this is a guess as individual satellite names were not published]; Date: 25 October 2008, 0015 UTC; Site: Taiyuan Launch Center, China. Both satellites separated from the rocket and entered orbit 12 minutes after lift-off.