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Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit
www.spacemart.com | Feb 10, 2012
Tehran, Iran (FNA) Feb 10, 2012 - Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites
www.space-travel.com | Feb 10, 2012
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 10, 2012 - ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's

Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip
www.spacedaily.com | Feb 10, 2012
Nanjing, China (XNA) Feb 10, 2012 - China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and

LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory
www.newscientist.com | Feb 8, 2012
A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins will launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on a new European Space Agency

ORS-1, ground system gain final ops acceptance
www.spacewar.com | Feb 7, 2012
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 - When Gen. William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, declared the Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite had achieved final operational capability in early January, the announcement

Galileo GPS Project Faces More Certain Future
www.defenseindustrydaily.com | Feb 6, 2012
2nd large contract series; EC: We want another EUR 7 billion; New build site opened; 1st operational launch; Article updates. (Feb (Last update: 2012-02-07 06:01:44 GMT)

Eight more Galileo navsats agreed
www.gpsdaily.com | Feb 3, 2012
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 03, 2012 - ESA has signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe's Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time. The signin

defence.professionals | defpro.com
www.defpro.com | Feb 2, 2012
The early 2007 anti-satellite test carried out by China, besides sending shock waves across the world, seriously jolted the Indian defence establishment into thinking about strategies required to...

MilSatCom Asia 2012 Asia’s leading Military Communications Event for Satellite Professionals | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Jan 27, 2012
MilSatCom Asia 2012 Asia’s leading Military Communications Event for Satellite Professionals. The largest gathering of high level government, military and industry SATCOM experts from Asia-Pacific. - PR11783649

Geomagnetic Storm May Affect Airline Routes
news.airwise.com | Jan 24, 2012
The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field on Tuesday, and it could affect airline routes, power grids and satellites, according to US space weather predictors.