Satellite News

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Systems Group satellite Flight-18, scheduled to launch in April 2008, successfully completed a seven-day system level acoustic test at a Lockheed Martin facility.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received Authorisations to Proceed (ATPs) from Orbital Sciences Corporation totalling US$3.5 million to provide multiplexers and switches for at least two commercial satellite programmes.
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a US$2.35 billion contract modification as part of a restructuring of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
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Nahuel 1, which is currently being transferred from its former operator Nahuelsat to the Argentinian state-controlled company Arsat, has reportedly developed technical problems with its on-board thrusters. In related news, an attempt to save Argentina’s 81 degrees West slot may not have worked out as planned.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed assembly and performance testing of WorldView 1, the remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe.
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Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted their competing proposals to the U.S. Air Force for the development and production phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System Space Segment (TSAT) programme.
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Iridium Satellite LLC is in talks with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to include sensors that could monitor weather and other Earth conditions on Iridium’s new fleet of communications satellites.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space to provide electromechanical switches for the Globalstar-2 satellite constellation.
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