UNIPER CONTENT CORPORATION'S SORPRESA! TO LAUNCH SECOND SATELLITE FEED - Juniper Content Corporation (OTCBB:JNPC) ("Juniper"), a media and entertainment company which owns and operates the Sorpresa! Network, announced today at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show that it will provide a second satellite feed for Mountain and Pacific Standard time zone audiences beginning on June 29th. More (Source: broadcastnewsroom.com - May 9)
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WORK ON PLAN TO LAUNCH SATELLITE INTO ORBIT - A group of university students are working on a plan to launch a satellite from Kentucky into earth's orbit. The satellite would be a 1-kilogram, 10-centimeter metal cube called KySat1. The studends plan to launch it next July from a site in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan in west Asia. More (Source: Kentucky.com - May 7)
ASTRA 1L SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED - SES ASTRA, an SES company is pleased to announce that its new ASTRA 1L satellite has been successfully launched into orbit. ASTRA 1L roared into space onboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, tonight at 19.29 local time (0.29 on 5 May Central European Time). More (Source: Infobolsa.es - May 5)
TELESAT'S ANIK F3 SATELLITE BEGINS COMMERCIAL SERVICE - Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, announced today that it has launched commercial services on its state-of-the-art Anik F3 satellite. The new satellite provides valuable broadcasting and telecommunications capacity and business communications throughout North America and also carries a Ka-band payload to supplement services now being carried on the Anik F2 satellite. More (Source: newswire.ca - May 2)
ORBITAL AWARDED CONTRACT FOR IS-15 COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected by Intelsat, LLC to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 15 (IS-15) commercial communications satellite. This satellite will be based on Orbital’s flight-proven STAR 2 platform. More (Source: WebWire - May 2)
NIGERIA COMMUNICATION SATELLITE FOR LAUNCH SOON - President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday announced that the first Nigerian Communication Satellite called ìNigComSat-1î aimed at introducing information and communication technology (ICT) through electronic transaction, particularly rural telephony, is to be launched before May 29, 2007. More (Source: thisdayonline.com - May 1)
10TH GILBERT-BUILT SATELLITE ORBITED FOR TEST OF DEFENSES - he tenth satellite constructed in Gilbert has been launched into space and is preparing for its missions. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems built the satellite, which is being used to collect data to improve missile defense systems and conduct experiments on data transfer between satellites, said Bob Mayer, program manager with the company. More (Source: azcentral.com - Apr 29)
ASTRONAUT TO CATCH EARLY FLIGHT HOME FROM SPACE STATION - NASA managers decided Thursday to bring U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams back to Earth on an earlier shuttle flight than planned so she doesn't spend more than six months in the cosmos. More (Source: CNN.com - Apr 27)
NO SIGNAL YET HEARD FROM TETHER-DEPLOYING SATELLITE - A tiny, experimental satellite [MAST] designed to deploy a long, thin tether in space has not made contact with ground controllers since it blasted into orbit on 17 April. But mission managers are optimistic that it will still be able to deploy the tether as planned. More (Source: NewScientistSpace - Apr 26)
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