News About Micro Satellites 18-JUL-08 en-us Bangalore, India (AFP) April 28, 2008 - An Indian rocket launched a record 10 satellites into orbit in a single mission Monday, underlining the nation's emergence as a major competitor in the multi-billion-dollar space market.]]> ]]> Guildford UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2008 - Europe's leading space firm, EADS Astrium, has agreed to acquire microsat powerhouse Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) from the University of Surrey. This landmark deal provides the financial and industrial resources required for SSTL's expansion and future development. Completion of the acquisition is subject to obtaining the relevant regulatory approval.]]> Washington (AFP) March 5, 2008 - Lockheed Martin has been awarded a 5.7 million dollar Pentagon contract to design clusters of small, individually launched satellites that can operate as a network in space, the company said Wednesday.]]> Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in the UK has been awarded a contract from Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to deliver a satellite platform as part of the Sapphire space object surveillance programme. MDA has been selected as the mission prime and will lead the Sapphire mission team that will include SSTL and COM DEV of Cambridge, Ontario, who will build the payload.]]> ]]> Ahmedabad, India (PTI) Sep 10, 2007 - Having successfully launched several indigenous satellites in the past, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now in the process of launching the first of its new genre of micro-satellites weighing less than 100 kgs. "Our main aim now is to make the satellite systems as compact as possible," said Dr S K Sharma, the Group Director, Project Planning Group (PPG) at the Space Applications Centre (SAC) here.]]> St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 17, 2007 - Boeing has completed the first phase of its nano-satellite research and experimentation with the successful conclusion of the CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) mission. The spacecraft, launched April 17 from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome in Kazakhstan, accomplished 100 percent of its primary mission objectives.]]> Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 09, 2007 - India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said today. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "We are trying to look at a small platform which can take up scientific experiments or may even be used for various cluster formations and things like that," Nair told PTI here.]]> ]]> Guilford UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2007 - World-leading small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully completed its Baseline Design Review for a Geostationary Mini-satellite Platform (GMP). The 2.28 million euro pre-development project forms part of ESA's Advanced Research in TElecommunications Systems funding stream for ESA/Industry partnerships (ARTES 4).]]> Ashburn VA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 - AeroAstro, along with prime contractor Ball Aerospace and Technologies, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the DoD Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Ball Aerospace and Technologie (BATC) and AeroAstro were awarded the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract in 2006, for up to six vehicles, with the first vehicle contract valued at $26M.]]> Brasilia (XNA) May 21, 2007 - Representatives of Brazil's Space Agency (AEB) and India's Space Department (ISRO) have set up a team to study cooperation in the space sectors of both countries, the AEB announced on Thursday. The two countries' team space study will be presented in September, in India, at the 58th International Space Congress sponsored by the International Space Federation.]]> ]]> ]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2007 - A partnership between NASA and the U.S. Naval Academy is offering students real-world experience. During 2007 and 2008, students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., will build a satellite called "MidSTAR-2" through a U.S. Department of Defense program that will carry four experiments into space in 2011 to look at different parts of Earth's atmosphere, gamma rays and solar winds.]]> St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 20, 2007 - A pico-satellite developed by Boeing to evaluate miniature spacecraft technologies was successfully launched to orbit on April 17 by an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.]]> Ashburn VA (SPX) Apr 18, 2007 - AeroAstro reports that STPSat-1 successfully completed Normal Operations Readiness Review (NORR), conducted on 28 March at the Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) at Kirtland AFB, NM. The NORR marks completion of the on-orbit checkout period that began with STPSat-1's launch on 8 March from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket. The checkout encompassed complete verification of each spacecraft subsystem's performance, and initialization of the two payload experiments. The checkout period was baselined for 30 days, but was accomplished in less than 3 weeks.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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