PanAmSat's Galaxy 7 Fails
Galaxy 7 has ceased transmissions due to the failure of an onboard system responsible for controlling the spacecraft. No customer disruptions were reported. [full article]

Bankruptcy Court Approves Iridium Sale
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the bid of Iridium Satellite LLC to purchase the operating assets of Iridium LLC and its subsidiaries. [full article]

Aerojet and Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion Venture Off
Aerojet and Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion ended negotiations to form a new joint venture space propulsion company. [full article]

General Dynamics to Buy Primex Technologies
General Dynamics Corp. announced that it would buy Primex Technologies Inc. [full article]

New Skies Considering Acquisitions
New Skies Satellites NV is seeking acquisitions of smaller, satellite operators. [full article]

New Skies to Lobby to Ease Satellite Technology Export Restrictions
New Skies Satellites NV will lobby the U.S. Congress next year to ease U.S. rules that limit exports of satellite technology. [full article]

StarBand to Procure Two Satellites to Deliver Internet Services
StarBand Communications Inc. plans to procure two satellites. [full article]

Philippine's Looking to Expand Mabuhay Agila Constellation
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone company (PLDT) has expressed interest in the 147° E slot. [full article]

Agrani Changes Satellite Strategy, Issues Satellite RFP
Agrani Satellite Services has issued informal requests for interest from satellite builders for a C- and Ku-band satellite. [full article]

India Approves Metsat for 2001 Launch
India's Cabinet has approved a proposal to build a weather satellite, Metsat, to be launched in October 2001. [full article]

USAF Awards Boeing and Lockheed Martin GPS III Study Contracts
Boeing and Lockheed Martin were each awarded US$16 million contracts to develop an architecture concept for the next generation of the navigation satellites, known as GPS III. [full article]

China Publishes White Paper on Space Program
China published a white paper titled, “China’s Space Activities” providing a rare glimpse into the Chinese Space Program. [full article]

Ariane 4 Launches Canada’s Anik F1
An Ariane 44L successfully launched Anik F1 from CSG, Kourou, at 2356 UTC on November 21. [full article]

Ariane 5 Launches PAS 1R and Three Other Satellites
An Ariane 5 successfully launched PAS 1R, Amsat Phase 3D and two small British defense research microsatellites from CSG, Kourou, at 0107 UTC on November 16. [full article]

QuickBird 1 Kosmos Launch Fails
A Kosmos 3M failed in its attempt to launch QuickBird 1 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 2300 UTC November 20. [full article]

Delta Launches NASA, Argentina and Swedish Science Satellites
A Delta 2 successfully launched Earth Observing-1, SAC-C, and Munin, from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1824:25 UTC on November 21. [full article]

Soyuz Launches Cargo To ISS On Progress M1-4
A Soyuz U launched Progress M1-4 from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 0132:36 UTC on Nov. 16. [full article]