Satellite News

Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth for the final time on Wednesday, 9 March, completing a 13-day mission to outfit the International Space Station.

Rocket: Atlas V/Centaur; Payload: Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-2); Date: 5 March 2011, 2246 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA.

SES S.A. and Sea Launch announced that they have entered into a framework understanding regarding possible co-operation on the future launch of SES satellites on Sea Launch launch vehicles.

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin team has delivered the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be prepared for an early May lift-off a board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle.

Inmarsat plc reported preliminary consolidated financial results for the year ending 31 December 2010.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced it was awarded a US$495,000 contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct an architectural study of commercial communications satellite (COCOMSAT) systems capabilities.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it was awarded a US$1.5 million study contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s MILSATCOM Systems Directorate to evaluate options available to meet future war fighting communications needs.

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