Satellite News

Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will now launch on 2 November 2009.

Aerojet said it has conducted a successful burst test and re-qualification of the upgraded Atlas V Solid Rocket Motor composite case.

NASA Ames Research Center announced it has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to receive the Kepler mission “Phase E,” or on-orbit operations contract, valued at US$11.6 million.

While selected components of the NPOESS programme have made progress over the past year, the programme is once again over budget and behind schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a recently published report titled “Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making.”

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide a remote ground station solution to an unnamed international customer to enable support for the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites.

SES Americom-New Skies announced that Spacenet has signed a multiyear satellite capacity agreement to help meet growing demand for emergency communications capabilities across North America.

Why should Spanish speakers investigate what satellite TV companies have to offer in the way of native language programming? Direct TV Mas and Dish Latino are the alternative to cable TV when considering Spanish channels.
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