Satellite News

South Korea’s multipurpose satellite Arirang 3, now under development, will likely be launched on a Japanese rocket in 2011, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

Specialists have brought the malfunctioning KazSat 1 back under control and returned it to geostationary orbit after a nearly five-month outage.

After four months of tests and qualification of the entire satellite and the ground segment by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, command and control operations for the Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite were handed over to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited US$236 million in punitive damages in its case versus The Boeing Company and its Boeing Satellite Services International subsidiary.

Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (ATK) reported financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2009.

EMS Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of 2008.