Satellite News

Eurockot Launch Services and its customer, the European Space Agency (ESA), have started preparations for the launch of the GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
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Eurockot Launches Korean Satellite
Video Drives Eutelsat Third Quarter Revenue Gains
Next GLONASS launch set for 25 December
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. results Q1 2008
Galileo signal reflections used for monitoring waves and weather at sea
Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (Space Systems) results Q3 FY 2009
Mexico’s Grupo Elektra orders VSAT equipment from Gilat
Public-Private Partnerships Makes High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Available To Universities

The launch of the NOAA-N Prime weather satellite was scrubbed when a launch pad gaseous nitrogen pressurisation system failed.
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RAMTelecom Expands Canadian Operations
Pace Appoints New Executive
NASA awards commercial cargo resupply services contracts
Star One C2, Vinasat 1 pre-launch details
Frequency Electronics Awarded Several Contracts from Department of Defense
Old Galileo as dead as a dodo, fast revival uncertain
ND Satcom Boosts Romanian Position
Integral Systems to provide ProtoStar with ground system

During a review of space shuttle Discovery’s readiness for flight, NASA managers decided to plan a launch no earlier than 19 February. The new planning date is pending additional analysis and particle impact testing associated with a flow control valve in the shuttle’s main engines. In related news, a reboost of the International Space Station was postponed.
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SES results H1 2008
Solar probe to freeze to death soon
Showtime Closes Financing Deal To Boost Regional Expansion
Japanese satellite broadcaster may buy satellite operator
Hughes Rebounds To First Quarter Profit
AAS gets order for German milsats
NROL-28 pre-launch ‘details’
Satellite Problems Threaten Globalstar Service

Arabsat has selected the consortium of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build and deliver in orbit two new satellites, Arabsat 5C and Arabsat 6B. Both will be launched by Arianespace.
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Orbital Express craft exchange fuel, battery
SES Americom’s Turnkey IP-Prime Now Available To North American Telcos
Globalstar to read utility meters
Iridium Reaps Spiking Numbers, Adds Adm. Blair To Board Of Directors
Globalstar Receives Qualcomm Duplex Satellite Data and Voice Module
Boeing delivers 25th Sea Launch payload accommodation package
U.S. Air Force accepts first SBIRS HEO system for operations
NASA Partners With Venture Capital Firm

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said it has successfully delivered the RapidEye information solution to its customer, RapidEye AG in Germany, thereby enabling commencement of commercial operations.
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Update: Germany’s latest spy satellite launched from Plesetsk
MTG Sells Shopping Channel
Global Relief Technologies Adds General Counsel
Intelsat introduces solution for rural cellular backhaul services
U.S. Navy shoots down defunct spy satellite
Astrotech to process two GOES satellites
Romanian Satellite Provider Offers Interactive Programming
Lockheed completes GPS III system design review

Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) has selected Integral Systems to deliver a turnkey satellite control system for the BSAT-3b and BSAT-3c satellites, scheduled for launch in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
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Dawn to enter final pre-launch processing
Marshall Byrd appointed VP and general manager of LMCSS
Satellite operators claim victory in C-band battle
WGS satellite operations transitioned to CCS-C system
SBIRS GEO-1 completes acoustic testing
But What About The Yugo? Porsche Going To XM As Bentley Gets Sirius
Ten years ago: first GPS IIR satellite launched
Optus Orders A Third Satellite

Integral Systems Inc. announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009.
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Japan likely to launch South Korea’s Arirang 3
Iridium Satellite appoints leader for NEXT development
Iran claims to have completed satellite launcher
Frost & Sullivan: Iridium more reliable than Globalstar
Commercial space transportation capabilities agreements signed
RAMTelecom Expands Canadian Operations
INSAT-4CR placed in near-geosynchronous orbit
Brazil receives first CBERS-2B data

Radio enthusiasts have not only, as reported yesterday, received signals from Iran’s Omid satellite – they even claim to have decoded them.
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