Satellite News

The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the UK-based satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) by EADS.
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TerreStar Europe Limited, a European mobile communications company and an indirect, majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation, announced that its application with the European Commission (EC) for a Pan-European 2GHz MSS S-band spectrum authorisation has been accepted and fulfils the Commission’s admissibility requirements.
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has announced the appointment of Gwynne Shotwell as President, effective immediately.
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The geostationary U.S. weather satellite GOES 12 is struggling with a thruster leak and as a consequence suffered an outage.

SRA International, Inc., a provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organisations and commercial clients, announced that NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has chosen SRA’s Spacecraft Command Language (SCL) to support the Constellation Program.

The Hotbird 9 and W2M satellites of Eutelsat Communications are on track for launch on 20 December on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.
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A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month, NASA said in a statement.
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Boeing is protesting larger rival Lockheed Martin’s win of the US$1.09 billion GOES-R contract.
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