Satellite News

The fourth and final pair of massive solar arrays, built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, have been installed on the International Space Station by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. The two new arrays have been deployed and are generating electricity.

EchoStar Satellite Services, a division of EchoStar Corporation, announced the launch of its Spacecraft Command and Control Services for the commercial satellite industry around the globe.

Integral Systems, Inc., , announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has received a contract from Hispasat to upgrade the Carrier Monitoring System throughout Hispasat’s network, extending the existing MonicsNet network to support the Amazonas 1 and Amazonas 2 communications systems.

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) said it will lead a British project to exploit signals from GPS and GNSS navigation satellites that are reflected from the Earth for remote sensing purposes.

Another satellite has reportedly been moved to Proton from another launch vehicle.

A Proton M launch vehicle has been shipped from Khrunichev’s production facilities in Moscow, Russia to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES announced three new launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’ satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man.

The launch of the Atlas V carrying the WGS-2 satellite was scrubbed after the launch team detected an anomalous leak rate in the Centaur upper stage oxidiser valve.