Satellite News

Astrium has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop key technologies for new re-ignitable upper stages for new launchers.

NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. The spacecraft will fly in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) decided to postpone the launch of the first Quasi-Zenith Satellite “Michibiki” by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18 (H-IIA F18) from the Tanegashima Space Center, which was originally scheduled for 2 August 2010.

Israel’s Ministry of Defence said that the “Ofeq 9 satellite was launched and successfully injected into orbit by means of a ‘Shavit’ satellite launcher.

The Siberian satellite manufacturer Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems and the French company Saft signed a frame contract for the supply of lithium-ion batteries for ISS-Reshetnev’s new spacecraft.

An experiment aboard the International Space Station has begun tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An experiment hosted by ESA’s Columbus module is testing the viability of monitoring global traffic from the Station’s orbit hundreds of kilometres up.

Technologies are to serve us in our personal or our professional life and advancement in the technologies are changing the things in our day to day life. Digital TVs are one of the best example of the advancement in technologies.
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Digital satellite broadcast have changed forever the way that TV is viewed in countries all across the world. Satellite and cable TV was the start of a major revolution which has increased the choice available to so many people. This has been continued by digital technology, and then by online broadcasting.
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