Satellite News

Intelsat, Ltd. announced that South African direct-to-home (DTH) television operator, MultiChoice, signed a long-term, multi-transponder agreement for satellite capacity.

SES S.A. announced that it is expanding the reach of its satellite-based broadband service Astra2Connect to Africa through a signed agreement with Intersat Africa, a provider of satellite-based Internet services on the continent.

Rocket: H-IIB; Payload: H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV); Date: 10 September 2009, 1702 UTC; Site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 15 minutes and 10 seconds after lift-off, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed.
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NASA and industry engineers successfully performed an initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket.
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The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force has entered final testing at the company’s Sunnyvale, California/USA facilities.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation said it has inaugurated a critical tool that will reduce the risk associated with developing the spacecraft for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) programme.
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Industrial sciences company PerkinElmer Inc. said it received a contract valued at more than US$15 million from ITT Corp.’s space systems division to support the Global Positioning System Block IIIA Space System programme.
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SES World Skies has signed a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the company meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia.
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