Satellite News

This month’s scheduled Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 mission resumes assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) with delivery of the Boeing Port 3/Port 4 (P3/P4) truss segment and solar arrays. STS-115 is the first assembly mission since November 2002.

SatCon Technology Corporation announced that SatCon Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary and designer and manufacturer of high reliability electronic components, has been awarded over US$1 million in contracts for Class K circuits from two major North American satellite subcontractors, which the company did not name.

A proposed U.S. system to protect satellites from solar storms or high-altitude nuclear detonations would cause world-wide radio communications blackouts, according to new research by a group of scientists from New Zealand, Finland and the UK.

Russia is ready to launch the Kazakh satellite KazSat-2 in 2009.

Space Micro said its Proton200k Computer is part of the winning solution selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate for engineering design and development support for the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) satellite programme.

U.S. entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow isn’t just working on inflatable habitats for space tourists but has also been awarded a U.S. patent for an inflatable satellite bus. What sounds rather strange at first may have applications especially for military satellites in order to hide and possibly retrofit them in orbit.

RT Logic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. announced the availability of their next generation high-rate digital telemetry data processor, the Telemetrix 500HR (T500HR).

On 11 August, an Ariane 5 ECA is to launch the JCSAT-10 communications satellite for Japanese operator JSAT Corporation, and the Syracuse 3B communications satellite for the French Ministry of Defence.