Satellite News

When it comes to sitting down at one’s HDTV and enjoying what’s on for the evening, there are choices. People might not realize that these choices extend beyond what is offered up on the channels available, and actually encompass who is offering those channels in the first place. But it’s true; there’s more out there than mere cable service, and if those in charge of dish companies have anything to say about it, all television viewers who haven’t made the shift yet will be won over soon enough.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/E; Payload: PakSat 1R; Date: 11 August 2011, 1615 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite entered geostationary transfer orbit, Xinhua said, citing the launch centre.
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Russia’s Space Forces have started ground tests of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, which will orbit a GLONASS satellite at the end of August, spokesman Lt. Col. Vitaly Vyatkin was quoted as saying.
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“Edoardo Amaldi,” the third European cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), is on its way to the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$11 million to provide Radarsat-2 satellite imagery to the European Space Agency (ESA). The imagery will be delivered from June 2011 until May 2014.
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Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) will coordinate a new regulation on insuring space risks, agency head Vladimir Popovkin said.
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There are over 55 satellites in synchronous orbit over Europe broadcasting just about every language and from every country you can imagine. French is well catered for with three satellites covering all European territory, French citizens living in or out of France can receive, with domestic size satellite dishes of less than 1 metre diameter, these signals with the minimum of equipment.
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SSTL has announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia, on 17 August 2011.
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