Loral Revenues Up 28 Percent In First Quarter
Loral Space & Communications Inc.’s revenues reached $221 million in the 2007 first quarter, up 28 percent from the first quarter of 2006, the company announced May 8. Loral credited...
Month: May 2007
GMV To Provide Satellite Ground Software To Intelsat
GMV signed two contracts with Intelsat Ltd. for satellite flight dynamics software support for advanced satellites, GMV announced May 8. GMV will provide software to support on-station operations, maneuver planning...
Orbital Sciences Wins Key Americom Deal
Orbital Sciences is celebrating a major contract award from SES Americom, Orbital announced May 8. The company will build a replacement satellite, AMC-5R, plus a ground spare, with an...
DataPath Joins Satellite Industry Association
DataPath Inc. has become an executive member of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA), DataPath announced May 7. SIA is a U.S.-based trade association providing worldwide representation of satellite operators, service...
Dish Network Launches MobileDish Programming Packages
EchoStar Communications Corp. and its Dish Network satellite TV service has launched the MobileDish in-car satellite service, EchoStar announced May 4. The programming package combines state-of-the-art antenna technology from RaySat...
Lockheed Martin Completes Major Design Review For TSAT
A team from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman completed a key design review of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment, signaling readiness to proceed with the next development...
Stratos First Quarter Revenues Climb 21 Percent
Furled by its Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) business, Stratos Global Corp. posted revenues of $144.6 million in the 2007 first quarter, up 21 percent from the same period a year...
Ariane 5 Launch Orbits Astra-1L, Galaxy 17
Arianespace’s second heavy-lift flight of 2007 deployed two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit May 4, the company announced. The Ariane 5 placed the Astra-1L spacecraft for SES Astra and...
Russia's National Broadcasting Launches Pay-TV Channels On Eutelsat-W4
[5/8/07] Russian broadcaster National Broadcasting Company has launched 12 pay-TV channels on Eutelsat-W4, Eutelsat Communications announced May 7. The transponder is being leased by RSCC acting on behalf of the...
Gilat To Provide Broadband Wireless Access Over WiMAX
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Proxim Wireless Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam Inc., to offer WiMAX, Wi-Fi Mesh and other broadband wireless access...