Satellite News

Boeing announced that the U.S. Air Force has placed the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into operation over the Pacific Ocean region.
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Genesis I, the first test module launched by commercial space habitat developer Bigelow Aerospace, has completed its 10,000th orbit around the Earth. The unmanned module is about to start its third year in space since its 12 July 2006 launch.
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ISE (Integral Systems Europe), a subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., announced that its EPOCH IPS (Integrated Product Suite) COTS product is in compliance with ESA’s (European Space Agency) PUS (Packet-Utilisation Standard) for Satellite Control Systems and EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment).
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Orbcomm Inc. has signed a next generation satellite constellation contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build 18 new Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites with an option to purchase up to 30 additional OG2 satellites to augment and upgrade Orbcomm’s existing satellite constellation.
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Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a NASA contract that supports the agency’s Science Mission Directorate 2007 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) in developing Earth science instrument subsystem technologies. Ball will also participate in a contract as co-investigators on a study led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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Vietnam has entered negotiations for an orbital slot orbit for its second satellite, Vinasat-2, which is slated to launch in the next seven to eight years, said Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunications Tran Duc Lai.
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said it is to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will come eight times closer to the Sun than any previous probe.
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