Satellite News

The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre on INSAT-4B was successfully conducted with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board for 93 minutes by commanding the satellite from Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka, India.

Harris Corporation has been awarded a contract by Alcatel Alenia Space to supply a 12-meter, commercial satellite antenna.

NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base for a targeted 25 April launch aboard a Pegasus XL rocket.

Saab Space of Gothenburg, Sweden, has received an order for hundreds of antenna elements for the Mobile Satellite Venture (MSV) system satellites to be built by Boeing.

Raytheon Company will lead an industry team in pursuit of the next generation Global Positioning System Control Segment (OCX), a programme to provide command, control, and mission support for current GPS Block II and III satellites as well as support to existing and new interfaces.

Spacehab’s Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a one-year contract extension for payload processing services by United Launch Alliance (ULA).

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) valued at US$1.5 million to commence work on a commercial satellite programme.

For its first launch of the year Arianespace will boost two payloads into orbit: the Skynet 5A military communications satellite for the British Ministry of Defence through Astrium subsidiary Paradigm, and the Insat 4B civil communications satellite for ISRO.