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Key Advance Toward Micro-Spacecraft Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 
Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of "micro-spacecraft" weighing barely 50 pounds and 10-pound "nano-spacecraft" closer to reality. "We don't have the processes in space to ... read more |
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MIT's Lincoln Lab Upgrades Sputnik-Era Antenna
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2008A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations thanks to a recently completed renovation. Lincoln Laboratory's Millstone Hill Radar (MHR) antenna is one of the world's principal tools for maintaining the Deep Space Catalog--the listing of the more than 3000 ... more GMV Releases Hifly 6 Satellite Control System 
Rockville MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2008GMV has released version 6.0 of its popular hifly Satellite Control System. hifly 6.0, is the latest version of its 100 percent flight-proven communication satellite operation software that supports satellites built by manufacturers around the world from launch and early operation procedures (LEOP) to routine on-station operations of satellites. Current hifly users include some of the ... more New Metamaterials Bend Light Backwards 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render ... more Researchers Analyze Material With Colossal Ionic Conductivity 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Aug 08, 2008A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells. The material, a super-lattice developed by researchers in Spain, improves ionic conductivity near room temperature by a factor of almost 100 million, representing "a colossal increase in ionic conduction properties," said Maria Varela of ORNL's ... more Satgate Contracts Four Transponders At New SES ASTRA Orbital Position 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Aug 05, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that, via its Nordic affiliate SES SIRIUS, it has contracted four transponders on its new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to the Lithuanian satellite services provider SatGate. SatGate is using the capacity to provide broadband and internet connectivity to households and end customers in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and its neighbouring countries and the ... more |
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Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jul 29, 2008Alliant Techsystems reports that the constellation of five micro satellites it built for NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission has successfully demonstrated how satellites can work together to collect data, which in this case, advances the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. The THEMIS mission determined the cause of the ... more LockMart Demos High Power Electric Propulsion System For TSAT Program 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2008The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment team has completed a successful demonstration of its new-generation High Power Hall Current Thruster (HPHCT) electric propulsion system designed for use on the U.S. Air Force's TSAT constellation. TSAT will provide thousands of military users with wideband, highly mobile, beyond ... more Big Space Junk 
Huntsvill AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Weight: 1400-lb. Size: Like a double-wide refrigerator. It is, in short, one big piece of space junk. The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007, almost one year ago. At the time, the castaway was in a high orbit and barely visible from Earth's surface. Not anymore: Twelve months later, with its orbit decaying, the EAS has ... more RT Logic Awarded South Pole TDRSS Relay II Project 
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jul 24, 2008RT Logic has announced a contract award by LJT and Associates for the South Pole TDRSS Relay II Project (SPTR II). LJT and Associates is a prime contractor for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and SPAWAR upgrade of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station data relay link to the White Sands Complex (WSC). Scheduled delivery is mid-August, 2008. Under the SPTR II upgrade effort RT Logic ... more APL-Operated Midcourse Space Experiment Ends 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2008After more than 12 years of successful operations and contributions to two diverse defense missions, the APL-built and -operated Midcourse Space Experiment satellite, known as MSX, is retiring, having operated well beyond its designed four-year life span. Ground crews from APL and the Air Force shut the spacecraft down on July 10, turning off transmitters and draining its batteries, and ... more |
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Punta Gorda, FL (SPX) Jul 18, 2008The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) has filed a position paper with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing a recent petition for allowing terrestrial services in the Ku-band. In its petition, the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) requested that the FCC allow terrestrial fixed services to operate in the crucial 14.0-14.5 GHz band. "Such an action would ... more EchoStar XI Satellite Deploys Solar Arrays On Schedule 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2008Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the EchoStar XI satellite, built for DISH Network, deployed its solar arrays early this morning, following its successful launch last night from Sea Launch's Odyssey Launch Platform on the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The 20-kW direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is performing post-launch maneuvers on schedule as it continues its progress toward ... more Eutelsat W5 Satellite Performance Stabilised 
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Following a technical incident experienced to part of the power generator subsystem of the W5 satellite in the night of 16 to 17 June, Eutelsat has conducted a technical investigation into the satellite's performance in collaboration with its manufacturer, Thales Alenia Space. Whereas the power performance of the satellite is now stabilised, the conclusion of this investigation is that it ... more Japanese team developing palm-held 3D display 
Tokyo (AFP) July 14, 2008Researchers in Japan are developing a gadget that could enable people to hold a three-dimensional image of someone in the palm of their hand. They hope the gCubik, which is still at the prototype stage, will later be developed to move in real time and appear to speak. "The ultimate image we have in mind is having a small person in your palm," said Shunsuke Yoshida, one of the researchers ... more Integral To Provide Carrier Monitoring And Interference Detection Capability To Telenor 
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jul 15, 2008Integral Systems Europe (ISE) has announced the delivery and installation of a fully integrated CSM (Carrier Signal Monitoring) and transponder planning system for the THOR family of satellites at Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS facilities in Nittedal, Norway. The turnkey system includes products from Integral's wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, the leading provider of satellite ... more
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