Satellite News

Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) announced financial results for the quarter ending 30 September 2008.

NASA has signed a US$141 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation services planned through the spring of 2012.

Satellite News Digest in its 24 November 2008 issue quoted a report by Nigerian newspaper Daily Independent that mentioned certain companies involved in the insurance of the failed NigComSat 1 satellite. One of these mentioned by the paper, SpaceCo of France, said in an e-mail that “the information you have quoted is extremely misleading and does not reflect the actual facts.” The company did not explain this any further. — Editor’s note: Sat-ND never claimed that SpaceCo (or any other of the companies mentioned) was actually providing cover for NigComSat 1. We are sorry for any misconception our article may have caused. What we correctly said (and what should be obvious upon careful reading) was that a Nigerian newspaper published a report that mentioned SpaceCo, amongst others, in this context. A URL for that article was also given so that any interested party could access the Daily Independent’s article immediately. […]

Insurers providing cover for the failed NigComSat 1 may pay as much as NGN17 billion (US$144 million) in claims, the Daily Independent reports.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reported its results for the third quarter ending 30 September 2008.

Intelsat, Ltd. reported results for the three-months ending 30 September 2008.

Spacehab, Incorporated announced financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2009.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been contracted to provide a Radarsat-2 information solution to a confidential defence intelligence agency.