Satellite News

The Hubble Space Telescope experienced an outage on 15 June after a malfunction of a science data handling unit installed during the last servicing mission, SM 4.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer on 4 June (UTC).
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Northrop Grumman completes acquisition of Scaled Composites
Government of Canada announces location of Polar Epsilon ground stations
Eutelsat orders W2A from Alcatel Alenia
Delay of the day: TacSat 3
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. results 2008
Insat-4B Reaches Kourou Spaceport
Boeing uses Spaceway 3 for TSAT review
Eutelsat W5: one of two solar arrays gone for good

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ESA’s Planck satellite is carrying out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that will place the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, early in July.
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BQTSAT completes phase 1 of satellite project
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Boeing demonstrates new TSAT software
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Number of detected FY-1C fragments rises dramatically
Delay of the day: Rokot/GOCE
Measat Signs Capacity Deal With Astro
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ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013. Envisat has been providing scientists and operational users with invaluable data for global monitoring and forecasting since its launch in 2002.
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Boeing Florida Operations VP To Retire
VIIRS passes vibration test
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EADS results Q1 2008
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Weather may delay shootdown of defunct spy satellite
ICO, Alcatel-Lucent to demo ICO mim’
Russia to close Svobodny

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The U.S. Air Force’s second geosynchronous Space Based Infrared Systems satellite successfully completed payload sensor mating operations at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, California/USA, on 28 May.
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The Boeing Company (Integrated Defense Systems) results Q3 2008
BSkyB Revenues, Subscribers Up
EchoStar to offer TT&C services for commercial satellites
National Geographic To Reach France Via Globecast
EMC Plans Dedicated IP Trunking Service In Africa
Boeing to build fourth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite
Broadband Satellite Internet Partnership Yields Fruit
Yahsat to provide secure satellite services for UAE Armed Forces

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Astrium has been commissioned by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to conduct a study for the testing of future moon landings. The aim is to prove the technological feasibility of a soft and precise robotic landing on the moon.
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Two launch delays for ULA rockets?
Delay of the day: I-4 F3
Second Algerian satellite system on schedule
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Boeing (Integrated Defense Systems) results Q2 2007
30 years ago: Voyager 2 launched
Aerojet To Integrate Russian Thrusters Into Satellite Propulsion Systems

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Gazprom Space Systems confirmed that its Yamal-201 satellite had suffered an outage but said that services have meanwhile been restored.
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GeoEye, Inc. said that a recently discovered flaw in a certain operating mode of the company’s GeoEye-1 satellite will not materially impact revenues.
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