Satellite News

Boeing said it has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the second of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites that the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The signals indicate that the spacecraft is healthy and ready to begin orbital manoeuvres and operational testing.
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During the 5th European Conference on Space Debris, 30 March to 2 April 2009, held at the European Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany, experts from a wide spectrum of disciplines communicated their research results through 100 oral presentations and more than 40 poster presentations.
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COM DEV USA, LLC has been awarded a contract by Boeing to supply passive microwave components for the next generation of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS).

U.S. Strategic Command and Air Force Space Command plan to provide conjunction analysis on all 800 manoeuvrable spacecraft currently operating in space by 1 October, a senior U.S. Air Force official said.
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Telesat announced that it has begun commercial service on its Telstar 11N satellite.
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SES Americom-New Skies announced that the NSS-9 satellite today entered commercial service at the orbital location of 177 degrees West.
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Boeing’s commercial satellite manufacturing business is likely to receive a multisatellite order from Intelsat Ltd. valued at more than US$400 million, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Lockheed Martin said it has established a new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) to enable a more efficient and reliable process for space vehicle component and flight software integration. As a Lockheed Martin Space Systems-wide asset, the laboratory will have applications for large, small, existing and future satellite development.
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