Satellite News

SmartSat, a new new UAE-based satellite operator, said its first satellite is now in the design stage while two of the world’s top 10 global satellite manufacturers have already been short listed for the project.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer reset last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.

The Boeing demonstration picosatellite CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) has surpassed 10,000 Earth orbits since its launch on 17 April 2007.

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited announced that it “takes strong exception to the press statement by the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) regarding Ofcom’s intent to write to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on 17 March to ‘instruct that the ICO-P assignments currently recorded in the ITU Master Register be cancelled’.”

EMS Technologies, Inc. reported fourth-quarter and full year 2008 results.

Eutelsat Communications and Polish pay-TV platform Cyfrowy Polsat have signed a new contract for an additional transponder on Eutelsat’s Hotbird 9 satellite.