Satellite News

WorldSpace, Inc. announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware approved the sale of substantially all of the assets related to the satellite radio business of it and its U.S. subsidiaries, WorldSpace Systems Corporation and AfriSpace, Inc. to Yenura Pte. Ltd.

A Proton M launch vehicle has been shipped from Khrunichev’s production facilities in Moscow, Russia to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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After lift-off on 17 March, ESA’s GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned, the agency said. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures.
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India plans to launch its Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) aboard a PSLV in a few weeks’ time – but according to media reports it is not the Indian-made spacecraft that had originally been announced.
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Omid-1, Iran’s first domestically produced satellite, has ended its test and successfully accomplished its seven-week mission, state television reported.
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Arrowhead Global Solutions has announced that it has been awarded two multimillion dollar contracts to provide over 200 MHz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. Government agencies.
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Thaicom PCL said that a subsidiary had received licences from the Japanese government to provide high-speed Internet services via its IPSTAR satellite from 1 April.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES announced three new launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’ satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man.