Month: May 2005

EADS Astrium won a satellite manufacturing contract in Korea to manufacture that country’s first multi-function geostationary satellite, named Coms. Korea Aerospace and Research Institute (KARI) selected Astrium to build this...

After a series of weather and equipment problems, Boeing successfully launched the NOAA-N satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration May 20. A Boeing Delta 2 rocket carried the...

Globalstar LLC reported May 19 a 45 percent growth year to year in its subscriber base and a 900 percent increase in its simplex, in its first year since being...

XM Satellite Radio announced a multi-year agreement for XM to broadcast live daily from its new studios at New York’s Lincoln Center. With this studio addition, XM will expand its...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Tempe, Ariz.-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received a $1.0 million award from the U.S. Government for the deployment of satellite modems and...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it won a contract from LiveTV to provide Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) antenna systems for Virgin Blue Airlines of Australia. The contract is estimated at...

The climatology satellite Calipso (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) left Alcatel Space‘s wallson May 18 for transport to the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch is scheduled...

Wildblue Communications Inc. announced it would begin rolling out satellite Internet service, providing high-speed Internet connections to homes and small businesses in communities in the continental United States not currently...

German pay-TV operator Premiere reported double-digit increases in overall revenues and subscriber numbers. These were two of the highlighted results for the quarter ended March 31. In terms of subscriber...

Space TV, a joint venture between the Tata Group and News Corp’s Star India, received approval to launch a direct-to-home satellite network in India, Reuters reported. The service is expected...