Satellite News

The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation has recognised the updated and revised 4th Edition Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado as a certified Space Imagination Product.

Astrium has been selected by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to develop an Earth Observation (EO) Hub at the new International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
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Astrium Services wholly owned subsidiary, Infoterra Ltd, has secured a further three year contract from the Farnborough Multi-Mission Processing and Archiving Facility (UK-MM-PAF) on behalf of the European Space Agency.

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, announced that its VxWorks real-time operating system has been chosen to run Logica’s Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
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JAXA has applied for a Guinness World Records listing after its Hayabusa space probe returned from a seven-year journey to asteroid Itokawa, an official was quoted as saying.
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NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Project today passed a Martian longevity record. The Opportunity rover surpassed the duration record set by NASA’s Viking 1 Lander of six years and 116 days operating on the surface of Mars. The effects of favourable weather on the red planet could also help the rovers generate more power.

“England’s new prototype SpeedSpike satellite system can pinpoint speeders on the ground from outer space. Then send them a ticket,” claims the Digital Trends web site. Not just sloppy reporting but also a fine example of how urban myths can get started.
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SeCureSystem, the satellite-based container monitoring system developed by Astrium, will for the first time, be integrated into the regular transport operations of a leading logistics company.