Month: May 2007

Boeing Co. demonstrated a fully autonomous, free-flight rendezvous and capture operation, while Northrop Grumman Corp. conducted multiple fluid transfers between two space vehicles using the Orbital Express system, the companies...

Video applications drove a 10 percent increase in Eutelsat’s 2007 third-quarter revenues, the company announced May 10. Eutelsat posted revenues of 205.7 million euros ($278.6 million) in the quarter, which...

[5/11/07] Space Systems/Loral will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies, SS/L’s first contract from the satellite operator, SS/L announced May 10. NSS-12 will carry C- and Ku-band transponders...

EchoStar Communications Corp. reported total revenue of $2.6 billion in the 2007 first quarter, up 15 percent from the same period a year ago, the company announced May 10. Net...

Yousuf Al Sayed, CEO of Thuraya, confirmed reports that his company will keep the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite with Sea Launch despite delays stemming from a January failure. Thuraya-3...

[5/10/07] DirecTV Group Inc. posted a profit of $336 million in the 2007 first quarter, up 43 percent from a year ago, the company announced May 9. Revenues improved 15...

WildBlue Communications Inc. and AT&T have expanded their AT&T Yahoo! Broadband via Satellite (Provided by WildBlue) program throughout a 22-state wireline footprint, WildBlue announced May 9. WildBlue provides high-speed Internet...

ViaSat Inc. will provide a 7.3-meter antenna system to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) that will be used to support the Korean Multipurpose Satellite (Kompsat) program, ViaSat announced May...

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., delivered its MonicsNet Satellite Carrier Monitoring system to Advantech Satellite Networks Inc. for use in the Saudi Aramco Satellite Communications...

Russian direct-to-home operator NTV-Plus will launch high-definition (HD) services using OpenTV’s digital television solutions, OpenTV announced May 8. NTV-Plus, owned by Gazprom-Media, delivers more than 90 channels to 560,000 subscribers....