Satellite News

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch the Selenological and Engineering Explorer “SELENE” by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in the summer of 2007. The satellite is also to carry messages from Earth to the Moon, and everybody can participate.

Raytheon Company, in partnership with Hamilton Sundstrand, successfully demonstrated the capabilities of its MicroLight networked, communications and navigation system at NASA’s recent desert research and technical studies annual demonstration.

WorldSpace Satellite Radio announced its support for the recent adoption of a satellite digital radio (SDR) standard in Europe.

In anticipation of the spring 2007 launch of its extremely high-resolution Earth imagery satellite, GeoEye has purchased high-bandwidth, high-performance compute technology from SGI .

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) said it has been awarded the world’s first government Global Network Satellite System (GNSS) contract designed to harness signals from all current and planned positioning satellite systems – GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo (G3).

MSC.Software, a provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, announced that France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has selected a broad portfolio of MSC.Software solutions to help the agency in their mission to invent the space systems of the future.

Galileo Industries and German Aerospace Center (DLR) have broken ground for one of two planned Galileo navigation satellite control centres in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.

Raytheon Company said it achieved a key milestone on the Modernised User Equipment programme by successfully acquiring and tracking for the first time a new M-code military signal transmitted by the latest-generation global positioning system satellite.