Satellite News

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has made progress in planning its GOES-R procurement but cost and schedules are likely to grow, the country’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) said.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Loral and its Canadian partner, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the final required regulatory approval necessary for the closing of the Telesat acquisition.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a request by TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar) for an extension of its satellite launch milestone from November 2007 to September 2008.

A meeting of European Union transport ministers in Luxembourg regarding funding of the troubled Galileo satellite navigation project has ended without any practical result.

United Launch Alliance, the joint venture that operates the Atlas rocket programme, said it was not affected by a corruption scandal that involves Energomash, the Russian manufacturer of the RD 180 engine used for the Atlas V’s first stage.

United Launch Alliance, the joint venture that operates the Atlas rocket programme, said it was not affected by a corruption scandal that involves Energomash, the Russian manufacturer of the RD 180 engine used for the Atlas V’s first stage.

Hardly surprising, a plan by the EU Commission to pay for the construction of the Galileo navsat system from surplus EU funds has met strong opposition, especially from the UK and Germany — although for partially different reasons.

Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) said it was awarded two Canadian patents and two Australian patents that protect essential aspects of MSV’s mobile satellite services (MSS) and ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology.