Satellite News

EMS Technologies, Inc. said that, under an agreement with Inmarsat Global Ltd., its SATCOM Division will design Inmarsat’s next-generation dual-mode satellite and GSM mobile phone.

Rising launch costs have made Bigelow Aerospace scrap its Galaxy subscale test spacecraft and instead move ahead with the company’s first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer.

Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has developed the Power Transfer Unit converter system for NASA’s Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System that will be activated during the 11-day STS-118 mission, which launched on 8 August.

AeroAstro announced that the STPSat-1 payload, SHIMMER, successfully gathered data from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 8 June.

Blue Sky Network and Iridium announced that the British Ministry of Defence is deploying Blue Sky Network’s Iridium satellite-based flight tracking equipment for the Search-and-Rescue division of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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A recent report by Aviation Week & Space Technology claiming that U.S. astronauts flew while heavily intoxicated on at least two occasions turned out to have been somewhat exaggerated. At least, there’s no proof yet for those allegations.
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Tampa Microwave, a designer and manufacturer of RF and microwave communications and test equipment for various commercial and government applications, announced the availability of the new SatSim Plus product family, the newest extension to the company’s line of satellite simulators.
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Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services (IS&GS), a business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, dedicated a new facility designed to support military operations of the future.
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