Satellite News

The STS-125 crew completed the fifth and final spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope Monday at 1922 UTC. Mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel began the spacewalk at 1220 UTC.

Node 3 has left the Turin plant of Thales Alenia Space, heading towards NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, from where it will be launched towards the International Space Station.

TerreStar Networks, a majority owned subsidiary of Terre Star Corporation, and Space Systems/Loral announced that TerreStar-1 has arrived on schedule in Kourou, French Guiana where it is scheduled to launch on 24 June aboard an Ariane 5.

A Northrop Grumman Corporation -led team completed the initial review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) design against the critical design review (CDR) criteria.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that the number of satellites in the GPS constellation could fall below the required 24 spacecraft because of delays in the development of replacement satellites.

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has cancelled two agreements worth US$50 million with ProtoStar Ltd.