Month: October 2006

Retail sales of satellite radios continue to be sluggish, and a general lighter trend in retail traffic suggest that “should this trend continue into mid-October, it may very well be...

Eumetsat announced Oct. 2 that the planned launch of the MetOp satellite would be delayed again after the spacecraft and the launch vehicle’s upper stage experienced a slight mechanical shock....

Boeing Co. announced that its team building the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has selected a vendor for the optical sensor that will fly aboard the Pathfinder spacecraft. Boeing...

Alcatel Alenia Space received a contract from prime contractor EADS Space to provide the main instrument for the Cryosat-2 spacecraft, Alcatel announced Oct. 2. CryoSat-2, scheduled to be launched in...

The Union Cabinet approved the design, development and launch of the Gsat-8/Insat-4G communications satellite, the government of India announced Sept. 29. The spacecraft, which is scheduled to be in service...

Intelsat Oct. 2 announced the promotion of Linda Kokal to senior vice president and treasurer. Kokal’s areas of responsibility and oversight include treasury, risk management, financial planning and analysis. She...

Export controls cause U.S.-based satellite companies to lose business to non-U.S. firms, according to experts at a recent symposium. “There was a clear consensus among speakers and participants that these...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] successfully conducted a guided test flight of its Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM) against a reinforced urban structure (RUS). The test was conducted at Eglin Air...

The Soyuz spacecraft that launched Sept. 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan, according to NASA. That brought to an end a mission carrying a...

The Boeing Co. [BA] completed Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum (SCTV) testing for the first of its Wideband Gapfiller Satellites (WGS), the company announced. The tests, conducted at the Boeing Satellite Development...