CANADA'S SPAR Aerospace has been awarded an $11 million contract from Lockheed Martin to design, manufacture, integrate and test the transmit-and-receive antenna feed-arrays for the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACES).
The ACES satellite will provide mobile, hand-held, telephone services in Asia. The arrays are critical elements, with stringent performance requirements needed because of the high power levels and narrow space transmit-and-receive frequencies.
The Hughes Galaxy 9 satellite was launched by a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 23 May. The HS-376 will be stationed at 123¡W longitude in geostationary orbit. A Proton booster launched a Russian Gorizont communications satellite from Baikonur on 25 May.
Source: Flight International
