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Archive for May 4th, 2012

Second AEHF satellite launched

May 4th, 2012 by

Rocket: Atlas V/Centaur; Payload: AEHF-2; Date: 4 May 2012, 1842 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Ground controllers have established communications with the spacecraft and confirmed the craft is operating properly.

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Aerojet’s AJ26 flight engine successfully tested for Orbital’s Antares rocket

May 4th, 2012 by

Aerojet announced that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitored the full-duration test in support of the Antares rocket programme. This is the eighth AJ26 engine to be tested at Stennis.

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OHB’s satellite integration hall in Bremen officially opened

May 4th, 2012 by

OHB System AG officially opened its new satellite integration hall. The new integration hall bears the name of the Galileo satellite navigation system.

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GeoEye proposes acquisition of DigitalGlobe

May 4th, 2012 by

GeoEye, Inc. announced that it is proposing to acquire DigitalGlobe, Inc.

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Report warns of rapid decline in U.S. Earth observation capabilities

May 4th, 2012 by

A new U.S. National Research Council report says that budget shortfalls, cost-estimate growth, launch failures, and changes in mission design and scope have left U.S. Earth observation systems in a more precarious position than they were five years ago.

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HTS-Powered Consumer Broadband Services: Are They Late to the Party?

May 4th, 2012 by me

by Rajiv Hazaray

Bordertown, NJ, May 2, 2012–During Satellite 2012, the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) bestowed the Industry Innovators Awards on Eutelsat Communications and ViaSat Inc in recognition of the development and launch of their High Throughput Satellites (HTS), KA-SAT and ViaSat-1, respectively. High frequency reuse and multiple spot beam architecture have packed 10 times capacity on these Ka-Band satellites without any deployment cost penalties.
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