Satellite News

A Lockheed Martin-led team has begun production activities to reconfigure a modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to include a new demonstration payload that will temporarily transmit a third civil signal following a successful review with the U.S. Air Force.

ClearSpeed Technology and BAE Systems have signed an agreement under which BAE Systems will license the design of ClearSpeed’s next generation processor for inclusion in satellite systems.

ClearSpeed Technology and BAE Systems have signed an agreement under which BAE Systems will license the design of ClearSpeed’s next generation processor for inclusion in satellite systems.

The Russian multi-role data-relay system Luch is expected to be fully deployed by 2015, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, the deputy head of the space equipment security department at the Defense Ministry’s fourth research institute, said.

By the beginning of the year 2008 Russia will have 102-103 spacecraft in orbit, according to the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Anatoliy Perminov.

A International Launch Services Proton M/Briz M is to launch JCSAT 11 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 5 September, 2243 UTC.

Thales Alenia Space plans to ship Giove-B — the second test satellite in the Galileo navigation constellation — from its plant in Rome, Italy, to the ESA-ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 3 September.

The Vietnam Telecom International Company (VTI) has set up the Vinasat Satellite Information Centre to manage and operate ground stations. The centre also will provide services related to Vinasat.