Satellite News

RazakSAT, Malaysia’s remote-sensing satellite, has arrived at Omelek Island in the Republic of Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean from where it will be launched into orbit next month.

The launch of Eutelsat’s W2A satellite aboard an International Launch Services Proton is scheduled for 3 April 2009, 1624 UTC.

The fourth and final pair of massive solar arrays, built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, have been installed on the International Space Station by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. The two new arrays have been deployed and are generating electricity.

EchoStar Satellite Services, a division of EchoStar Corporation, announced the launch of its Spacecraft Command and Control Services for the commercial satellite industry around the globe.

Integral Systems, Inc., , announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has received a contract from Hispasat to upgrade the Carrier Monitoring System throughout Hispasat’s network, extending the existing MonicsNet network to support the Amazonas 1 and Amazonas 2 communications systems.

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) said it will lead a British project to exploit signals from GPS and GNSS navigation satellites that are reflected from the Earth for remote sensing purposes.