Boeing Taps Vendor For SBSS Optical Sensor
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...
Author: Staff Writer
Alcatel Alenia To Build Cryosat-2 Radar Altimeter
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...
India Approves Communications Satellite
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 Names Kokal Vice President, Treasurer
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...
Lockheed Martin to Help Joint Coalition Manage Radio Spectrum
The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to development technology intended to automate and accelerate spectrum planning, the company announced Sept. 28. Lockheed...
Mars Rover Opportunity Scans Huge Crater On Red Planet
The Mars rover Opportunity has moved to the edge of a giant crater, NASA announced. Rovers Opportunity and Spirit, which only were supposed to work briefly after landing on the...
Microsoft and Hughes To Provide Broadband In Rural India
Microsoft Corporation and Hughes announced Sept. 28 a plan to roll out 5,000 broadband-enabled kiosks across India. According to a published report from The Hindu newspaper, information and communications-technology kiosks...
Boeing Completes Last Round Of Critical Wideband Gapfiller Satellite Tests
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...
Bulldog Technologies, Put To Sleep?
Canada-based Bulldog Technologies, which combined cellular and satellite technologies in a unique cargo-tracking system, was reportedly forced to shut its doors last weekend. As first reported Sept. 29 in sister...
Experts See Export Controls Harming U.S. Sales
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...