BRUSSELS: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—An important note regarding yesterday’s story of Apax Partners purchasing Telenor Satellite Services from Telenor ASA was the price such was going to require – that’ll be $400 million, please.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—The small company, Rocketplane Kistler, Inc., is developing and building a fully reusable, two stage orbital launch vehicle, the K-1. When completed, the K-1 will be capable of serving multiple markets, including International Space Station (ISS) cargo re-supply, and government and commercial satellite launches. This is a private sector company attempt to become involved in space operations. The Wall Street Journal is reporting in a story bylined by Andy Pasztor that the company as failed to secure investors. This could be a serious blow to privately supported space exploration efforts. According to Mr. Pasztor, negotiations broke down between a group of prospective commercial investors and Rocketplane Kistler Inc. In order to keep the project on track, alternative funding to the tune of $500 million is needed. Company officials told the WSJ Online they are working on fresh financing and do expect the project to succeed.
NASA: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—A highly successful mission, that is the description of the STS-118 trip to and from the International Space Station (ISS). A perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday at 12:32:29 and today the crew spoke enthusiastically about their 13 days in orbit and their work that delivered a new segment to the ISS as well as 5,800 pounds of equipment and supplies. Teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan stated she is still getting used to gravity again, but this was a great experience and she hopes more teachers will be able to share in with future missions. Total miles flown: 5.3 million!
IZEGEM, BELGIUM: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—As a supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions for satellite, HFC broadband, IPTV and the broadcast industry, Skyline Communications has announced that Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has selected DataMiner NMS platform for their top level network management system. Skyline’s DataMiner will allow Telenor to create a consolidated overview of it various services, across any vendor or technological boundary. DataMiner is to be installed at the Telenor-owned Nittedal teleport that is located just north of Oslo, Norway. The teleport provides services for VSTA networks, TV broadcasting, interactive multimedia services as well as tracking, telemetry and control for satellite operations.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—Sundance designs and manufactures mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures as well as wireless infrastructures, satellite communications, industrial sign processing, sonar and radar, software defined radio (SDR) and more. They have just announced their Digital Video Infrastructure Platform (DVIP) supports Simulink HDL Coder from The MathWorks. With this new capability, embedded software engineers will be able to target field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) with having detailed knowledge of programming those devices. The DVIP family has no less than three Xilinix Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs and sports somewhere in the region of 15 million spare gates, all available for user to program with their own algorithms.
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