Satellite News

The U.S. Air Force has authorised the Commonwealth of Australia’s provision of US$234 million for Boeing to complete production of the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite.
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A defunct Russian military satellite that has been inactive for two decades last year suddenly started shedding debris, according to NASA’s Orbital Debris Quarterly News.
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PlanetSpace has filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) a protest to the selection decision of NASA under the ISS Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) competition.
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RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. said it has been chosen to distribute two additional Russian-speaking channels, Smile of Child and Bridge TV, over Russia on Yamal 201 at 90 degrees East.
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U.S. Air Force officials have delayed the launch of Tactical Satellite-3 until repairs to a spacecraft avionics component, critical to the system’s operational capability, are complete.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected to design, manufacture and test a new commercial communications spacecraft known as New Dawn.
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The U.S. Defense Department has used two mysterious microsatellites to inspect its failed DSP 23 early warning satellite, Spaceflight Now reports. The manoeuvre remains mysterious, though, and might be little more than a covert public relations operation.
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GeoEye, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite.
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