Satellite News

The Space Foundation announced it will present the Rosetta Comet Exploration Team with the 2015 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that its JUPITER high-throughput satellite system has been named the 2014 Technology Innovation of the Year at VSAT 2014.

The Herschel-Planck programme has won the gold medal award at the 28th world congress of the IPMA (International Project Management Association).

Thaicom’s CEO Suphajee Suthumpun has been named ‘Satellite Executive of the Year in the Asia-Pacific’ by the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC).

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Electric Propulsion Technical Committee at the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics for its contribution to the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-1 (AEHF-1) Rescue Team.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has won the Best Aerospace and Defence company award at Insider’s first ever Made in the UK National finals, held in Liverpool yesterday as part of the International Festival for Business 2014.

The international COSPAS-SARSAT rescue network, responsible for saving more than 37,000 people worldwide, including more than 7,300 in the United States thanks to NOAA satellite operations, was inducted into the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame yesterday.

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.