Satellite News

ProtoStar Ltd. and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and PLDT’s subsidiary, Mabuhay Satellite Corporation, announced the signing of several agreements covering multiple areas of co-operation.

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) will jointly launch a second joint communications satellite in 2010, Chunghwa Telecom said.

The Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite received its in-flight acceptance at an assessment meeting in Toulouse recently.

The U.S. Department of Defense has approved plans to buy and launch two commercial-class imagery satellites to complement its classified constellation of spy craft.

A Lockheed Martin /Northrop Grumman team has successfully tested a high performance deployable radiator system to meet the stringent mission requirements of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) constellation.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has successfully completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

The Russian unmanned resupply spacecraft Progress M-65 docked with the International Space Station, four days late due to Hurricane Ike, Interfax news agency reported.

Objectivity announced that its flagship product, Objectivity/DB, is being used in the Space Situational Awareness Foundational Enterprise (SSAFE) programme to build a comprehensive catalogue of space objects that will be used by the U.S. Air Force to increase situational awareness and manage collision avoidance.