Satellite News

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies a US$1.45 million delivery order contract for the Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Distributed Exploitation Element (MDEE) Squadron Stand Up.
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Pseudo-satellites, ground-based substitutes used when signals from ‘real’ satellites are not available, can deliver accurate positioning information in places where conventional solutions fail. This was demonstrated on 27 June in Helsinki harbour as part of a project supported by ESA.
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Dextre, the special purpose dexterous manipulator developed by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. under contract from the Canadian Space Agency, has been delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Astrium has unveiled a new vehicle for space tourism at a special VIP event in Paris ahead of the Le Bourget Airshow. This business jet sized vehicle is designed to carry four passengers 100 km up into space giving more than three minutes of “zero G” or weightlessness.
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Lockheed Martin was selected by the U.S. Air Force Space Command, Space and Missile Systems Center to continue providing support and evolutionary growth to the command’s premier weather satellite receiving stations.

NASA has issued a request for proposal for key guidance, navigation and control hardware for the new Ares I crew launch vehicle. The upper stage instrument unit avionics will be used during the Ares I ascent.

As a result of a five month-long study by SpaceDev, Benson Space Company (BSC) has chosen to pursue a fresh approach in the design of its Dream Chaser spaceship.

“Amidst all of the controversy over funding for the beleaguered Galileo system, Europe’s answer to the U.S.-based GPS, comes official acknowledgment that Galileo will have its military and defense uses, alongside civilian applications.” (GPS World)