Satellite News

A defunct Russian military satellite that has been inactive for two decades last year suddenly started shedding debris, according to NASA’s Orbital Debris Quarterly News.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected to design, manufacture and test a new commercial communications spacecraft known as New Dawn.
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The U.S. Defense Department has used two mysterious microsatellites to inspect its failed DSP 23 early warning satellite, Spaceflight Now reports. The manoeuvre remains mysterious, though, and might be little more than a covert public relations operation.
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GeoEye, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite.
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Lockheed Martin announced that the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite has entered a major test phase with the latest version of flight software.
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On 14 January, NASA’s Stardust-NExT spacecraft will fly by Earth during a gravity assist manoeuvre that will increase its velocity and sling shot the spacecraft into an orbit to meet up with comet Tempel 1 in February 2011.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has shipped Telstar 11N to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched on the Land Launch system.
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The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center, Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing has authorised Boeing US$234 million to begin production of the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite.