Satnews Weekly This Week's Satellite News   
February 1, 2010 — February 7, 2010

NASA's 2011 Budget — Reactions, Plans, Hopes . .
Today the White House released the 2011 Budget Overview (22 pages) of their plans and financial information for NASA. According to SatNews' interpretation of the various statements, there apparently weren't any major surprises, and reactions of key players accept the recommendations. Full Story

The White House — NPOESS Killed
The White House announced on February 1st it will end a civil-military weather satellite program and, instead, pursue two separate lines of polar-orbiting satellites to serve military and civilian users. Full Story

Intelsat — IS-4 Suffers SCP Anomaly
Intelsat S.A.'s Intelsat 4 satellite (IS-4), located at 72 degrees East Longitude, experienced an anomaly on February 1, 2010, at approximately 00:18 GMT. Full Story

NASA — NPOESS Imagery Instrument Inbound
The development of a new series of weather and environmental monitoring satellites has marked a significant milestone with the delivery and the beginning of spacecraft integration efforts for a key science instrument. Full Story

Eutelsat — W2 Working Well Again
Working in close collaboration with clients, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) confirms that all services affected by the anomaly which occurred in the evening of January 27th on the W2 satellite are now fully restored at 16 degrees East. Full Story

National Space Symposium Speaker — Erudite In Air Force Matters — NRO Director Carlson
Gen. Bruce A. Carlson, USAF (Retired), director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is slated to be a featured speaker at the 26th National Space Symposium April 12-15 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth — A Chile Volcano (NASA)
A layer of snow rested on a relatively calm Llaima Volcano on December 11, 2009, as the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite passed overhead. Full Story

SatMex — Number Five Takes A Permanent Propulsion Pause
Mexican satellite service provider Satelites Mexicanos, or SatMex, said last Friday the failure of the primary propulsion system on its Satmex 5 unit will shave more than a year off its remaining life. Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth — The Bering Brrrrrrrrrr (NASA)
Winds from the north pushed sea ice southward and formed cloud streets — parallel rows of clouds — over the Bering Strait in mid-January 2010. Full Story

atrexx — Offers Satellite First Aid Assistance With Anomaly To Restart IS-4
atrexx, a specialist provider of telecommunications and broadcast solutions, is offering to restore the services of Intelsat-4 customers after the satellite experienced an anomaly resulting in the switching off of the communication payload to conserve battery power. Full Story

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