Satellite News

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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NASA’s upcoming mission to study the Sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 9 July.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on 25 July. The Earth observation missions, UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1, will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that Saturday at 1846 UTC.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, has reached geostationary orbit. The satellite has now been renamed and its solar array has been deployed.
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NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the development of the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS.
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A satellite imagery receiving station was inaugurated in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on 9 July with assistance from the French government.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced executive organisational changes that became effective on 8 July 2009.
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Lord knows that every football season has its share of dramatic shifts and turns, but that doesn’t stop anyone from going out on a limb and making predictions for each upcoming campaign. It’s a time for optimism and what-ifs, while a time for the owners and management to make the deals that will shape their team’s identity in the new year. Here are the five questions that everyone will want answered as the games become available on NFL Sunday Ticket this football season.