Satellite News

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.

Orbcomm Inc. said the company and its satellite insurers settled any and all claims relating to the Coast Guard Demonstration satellite and five quick launch satellites.

Iraqi insurgents have reportedly managed to capture video streams sent by U.S. drones, using no more than a standard satellite dish and cheap computer software.

Intelsat, S.A. announced that Etisalat UAE has signed a multi-year capacity contract on the recently launched Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15), located at 85 degrees East.

exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide its space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) service, exactAIS, to the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) on a paid trial basis.

The Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia), ESA’s next-generation star mapper, will be carried into space by a Soyuz-STB/Fregat launch vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in 2012.
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