Satellite News

The Board of Directors of Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has accepted the resignation of John B. Higginbotham as Chief Executive Officer, President, and as a member of the Board of Directors. His resignation comes only days after Integral reported an operational loss of US$3.8 million for the third quarter of the company’s fiscal year 2009.
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The Indian government has approved design and development of GSAT-10 spacecraft at a cost of INR7.35 billion (EUR108 million, US$155 million) and with a foreign exchange component of about 8.6 percent.

A deployable satellite reflector and boom assembly from Northrop Grumman Corporation will help NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) map soil moisture and the freezing and thawing cycles globally with unprecedented accuracy, resolution and coverage, the company said.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) will be the first to systematically measure the polarisation of cosmic X-ray sources.

China’s first Mars probe has been transported to Russia for a launch later this year, state media reported.

The DirecTV Group, Inc. reported second quarter 2009 financial results.

Sirius XM Radio announced second quarter 2009 financial and operating results.