Month: May 2005

Norsat International Inc. shipped portable satellite terminals for use by a military organization in Asia, the company announced. The terminals will enable high data-rate communications among bases. The size of...

Globecomm Systems Inc. unveiled its lightweight broadband terminal designed to meet airline cabin baggage requirements. The 0.77-meter terminal is contained within a pair of suitcases and can be set up...

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, is making meteorological data available to users beyond its core user group of Europe’s weather services. More than 1,000 users...

Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing Co. that offers satellite broadband connectivity distributed through a Wi-Fi connection to laptops of airline passengers, learned a valuable lesson during the...

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27 as this issue of Satellite News was going to press that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at its Dulles, Va., and Chandler, Ariz.,...

Satellite operator Telesat announced the launch of its two-way satellite broadband service. The service, operating on Anik F2’s Ka-band payload, delivers high-speed Internet connectivity throughout Canada. “By delivering superior broadband...

Digitalglobe will provide imagery collected by its Quickbird satellite for use in mapping floodplains in Kauai County, Hawaii. The Digital Ortho Quarter Quad product, which offers two-foot resolution, will allow...

The European Space Agency (ESA) completed an aircraft flight from Dakar to Mombassa using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), the European satellite navigation system. The mission could play...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized the launch and operation of a next-generation L-band satellite at 101 degrees West. This follows the April 5...

European entrepreneurs, small businesses, academia and research institutes are invited to participate in a competition to develop innovative uses of the planned Galileo global navigation satellite system. The best idea...