E-letter: Briefs

Astrium Wins ESA’s Sentinel-2B Contract Astrium has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Sentinel-2B optical satellite, the next flight unit in the Sentinel series. Astrium...

AsiaSat Wade to replace jackson as ceo AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson will step down as CEO July 31 and be appointed executive chairman at the beginning of August and remain...

Andrew Solutions Upgrades SmartBeam For Wireless Operators Wireless communication systems provider Andrew Solutions is offering its SmartBeam base station antenna system to wireless operator customers. The SmartBeam system aims to...

ATK, Lockheed Martin Unveil Next-Generation Athena Launchers Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have entered into a strategic partnership agreement to offer launch services for small payloads utilizing upgraded and...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a contract modification to United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3)...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Russia has launched a Soyuz-U space rocket carrying the Progress Ðœ-05Ðœ spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Russian officials announced April 29.       The Progress Ðœ-05 cargo...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Integral Systems subsidiary SAT Corp. received a seven-year contract extension to continue providing support to Sky Perfect JSAT’s existing Monics CSM and satID geolocation systems, Integral Systems...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Lockheed Martin has delivered a UHF satellite communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program, the company announced...

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] Xtar Vice President of Government Services Bill Schmidt died April 28 following a heart attack.  Schmidt, a senior manager of Xtar since 2007, participated as an authoritative...

 [Satellite TODAY 04-30-10] The Tauri Group, an analytical consulting firm for homeland security, defense, and space enterprises, has released a study showing that commercial GEO launch prices per kilogram, adjusted...