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PROTON-M CARRIER WITH U.S. TELECOM SATELLITE TO LIFT OFF IN JUNE PROTON-M CARRIER WITH U.S. TELECOM SATELLITE TO LIFT OFF IN JUNE - A Proton-M rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite, DirecTV-10, has been scheduled for launch in June this year from a space center in Kazakhstan, a leading Russian space company said Monday. The DirecTV-10 is a commercial telecommunications satellite designed and manufactured by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to provide consumers across the continental part of the United States, Hawaii and Alaska with local and national High Definition Television (HDTV).    More
(Source: Ria Novosti - May 29)


CHINA LAUNCHES NEW SATELLITE - China has launched a new remote sensing satellite for scientific research. The China Academy of Space Technology said the satellite will be used for land resources surveying, crop yield estimate and disaster forecasting, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Friday.   More
(Source: market-day.net - May 27)


CHINA BUILDING VENEZUELA SATELLITE - Venezuelan minister of Science and Technology, Hector Navarro, announced that the Simon Bolivar public service satellite under construction in China will be launched next year.   More
(Source: Prensa Latina - May 21)


SUN-ORBITING SATELLITE ANALYZES SOLAR WIND - Dr. Steven Cranmer of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is using a sun-orbiting satellite to learn about solar wind: hot streams of charged particles that explode off the sun’s surface. These particles continue to heat up as they accelerate out to a coasting speed of over a million kilometers an hour.    More
(Source: EarthSky.org - May 21)


US NAVAL ACADEMY-BUILT SATELLITE TO CARRY NASA EXPERIMENTS - 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.   More
(Source: Sciencedaily.com - May 16)


SHUTTLE TO RETURN TO LAUNCH PAD - NASA managers on Friday approved moving Atlantis to the launch pad in hopes that a June launch will return the space shuttle program to a regular flight schedule after a six-month hiatus.    More
(Source: CNN.com - May 14)


CHINA LAUNCHES COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FOR NIGERIA - A Chinese rocket blasted a Nigerian communications satellite into orbit on Monday, marking an expansion of China's commercial launching services for foreign space hardware, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency said it was the first time a foreign buyer has purchased a Chinese satellite and its launching service.    More
(Source: Thestar online - May 14)


MARITIME DISTRESS SYSTEM, LOW ORBIT SATELLITE AID IN SEA RESCUE OF FIVE MERCHANT SAILORS - The Global Maritime Distress Safety System and a signal from an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon detected by a satellite in low earth orbit above the Pacific Ocean can be given credit for contributing to the rescue of five merchant sailors Saturday night.    More
(Source: Pacific Daily News - May 14)


SATELLITE KISS - Boeing and two US space companies will play key roles in an attempt at an autonomous space link in space designed to show how a servicing satellite could transfer propellant or components to degrading client satellites   More
(Source: indianexpress.com - May 13)


EU TO FINANCE GALILEO SATELLITE PROGRAM - The European Commission said Thursday that the troubled Galileo satellite navigation system would be financed wholly by public money after the industrial consortium chosen to build and operate the ambitious technological project failed to reach terms.   More
(Source: International Herald Tribune - May 11)

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