Satellite News

Boeing satellite pioneer Harold A. Rosen, whose work helped make possible the global broadband communications that shapes modern society, received a lifetime achievement award from Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine on 6 March.

The next SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Sunday, 16 March from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Russia is planning to launch another GLONASS-M navigation satellite into orbit on 24 March (local time), the country’s Defense Ministry said.

Arab Satellite Communication Organisation and Telesat Canada have signed a strategic commercial agreement under which Telesat will utilise a lifetime Ku-band payload on the new satellite Hellas-sat-4.

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. planet hunting Kepler Mission completed five years of operations since its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on 6 March 2009.

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager started to spin at its normal rate today and collect science data on Earth’s rain and snowfall.

Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi) announced the successful installation of the second COSPAS-SARSAT Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) satellite Ground Station for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency responsible for the U.S. SARSAT programme.

Intrasky, a satellite service provider in the Middle East and Africa, has selected Ka-band capacity on the Eutelsat 8 West C satellite.