Satellite News

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The launch of France’s HELIOS 2B reconnaissance satellite aboard an Ariane 5GS was scrubbed about six minutes before the scheduled lift-off time (1626 UTC) today.

Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected by Intelsat, S.A. to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) commercial communications satellite.

SES S.A. announced that its SES Satellite Leasing business unit in the Isle of Man was selected as the successful bidder in yesterday’s public auction for the Protostar 2 satellite with a US$185 million, all cash offer.

The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2007 to design and build the agency’s Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series, has met the requirements of a Critical Design Review.

BAE Systems said its RAD750 computer processes data and performs other critical functions aboard NASA’s WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) satellite, built by Ball Aerospace and launched on 14 December.

GeoEye Inc. in a statement disclosed that its engineers have detected an “irregularity” in the downlink antenna of its GeoEye-1 satellite.