Satellite News

The Ekspress AM44 satellite designed and manufactured by the JSC Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (ISS) was accepted by the customer, the federal state unitary enterprise Space Communication (RSCC) on 6 May.

Although its peak is still four years away, a new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center and funded by NASA. Despite the prediction, Earth is still vulnerable to a severe solar storm.

Inmarsat Holdings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inmarsat plc, reported unaudited consolidated financial results for the three months ending 31 March 2009.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd announced that Telekom Malaysia Berhad has renewed a contract for the leasing of transponder capacity on the Measat-3 satellite.

Concerns regarding North Korea’s possible plans to develop long-range missiles set aside – the country’s claim to have launched the Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite undoubtedly also has a certain fun factor. Pyongyang now even claims the spacecraft was being jammed.

An International Launch Services Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the IndoStar 2/ProtoStar II satellite on board on 15 May.
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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA officials announced Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. has (again) been selected to build two satellites for NOAA’s next generation geostationary satellite series, GOES-R.
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Russia’s Progress M-66 cargo spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station to become a temporary space lab before being deorbited.
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