Author: Staff Writer

After a three-year effort, Telenor Satellite Services received the necessary concession from the Brazilian government to offer Inmarsat satellite service directly to customers in the country rather than through Telenor’s...

Intelsat Ltd. attributed the January failure of the Intelsat 804 satellite to a design problem with the satellite platform, Intelsat said in its second quarter 2005 financial release. The IS-804...

An Ariane 5 rocket lofted the long-awaited Shin Satellite Plc’s IPStar satellite into orbit Aug. 11, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft, with a launch mass of 6,485 kilograms, is the largest...

The launch of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was postponed for the second time Aug. 11 due to a combination of weather and technical problems, NASA announced. The delay was called...

Intelsat Ltd. posted a net loss of $53.4 million in the second quarter 2005 on revenue of $289.8 million, the company reported Aug. 11. In the same period in 2004,...

Xantic received a contract from NATO to provide Inmarsat services for deployed forces, the company announced Aug. 11. Under the agreement with the NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Xantic...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has shipped more than 30 Skyedge commercial hubs and more than 10,000 Skyedge VSATs worldwide, the company announced Aug. 11. The Skyedge system is based on...

China is planning to launch a lunar probe in 2007, according to a report from the Xinhua news agency. The Aug. 9 report cited an official from the China Aerospace...

The European Commission (EC) cleared the merger of the government launch operations of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. into the United Launch Alliance joint venture. According to an Aug....

German satellite pay-TV operator Premiere, reported earlier this week it had more than 3.3 million subscribers at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of more than 14 percent. Premiere...