Satellite News

Astrium’s Skynet 5 satellite design and manufacturing team, led by Patrick Wood, FRAeS, the Skynet 5 Project Director, has received two specialist awards from The Royal Aeronautical Society, UK.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has been presented with an award by the European Space Agency (ESA) acknowledging the successful GIOVE A mission and its contribution to the success of the Galileo programme.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has recognised Northrop Grumman Corporation with a Group Achievement Award for a deployable antenna flown on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The team from Indian Space Research Organisation which successfully realised the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) mission that launched Cartosat-2 as well as the team that deployed and recovered Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) have been awarded the Team Achievement Award of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. was awarded “Regional Satellite Operator of the Year” in the Excellence in Satellite Management Awards at the 12th World Summit for Satellite Financing in Paris, France.

At the annual World Satellite Business Week event in Paris, Eutelsat Communications was today given the award for ‘Best Satellite Operator of The Year’ for growth and profitability by Euroconsult. Hughes Network Systems, LLC received Euroconsult’s 2008 Award as Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year for the “Best Development of a Broadband Satellite System.”

EMCORE Corporation announced that its world record Inverted Metamorphic (IMM) solar cell technology has been chosen by R&D Magazine for an R&D 100 award.

Boeing has received the Satellite Industry Leadership Award at the 2008 International Satellite and Communications exchange (ISCe) in San Diego, California/USA.
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