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Anik F1R Begins Commercial Service

Telesat announced Oct. 3 that is began commercial service on its Anik F1R satellite. The satellite, which carries 32 Ku-band transponders, 24 C-band transponders and two navigation transponders, provides broadcasting...

AGS Received Support Contract From CDC

Americom Government Services (AGS), a subsidiary of SES Americom, announced Oct. 5 it received a five-year contract to support the Center For Disease Control and Prevention‘s (CDC) Global Disease Detection...

Inmarsat Gains Maersk Sealand Approval

Shipping company Maersk Sealand completed a field evaluation of Inmarsat‘s Fleet F77 128 kilobits per second services, Inmarsat announced. “Throughout the trial we found the 128 kbps Fleet F77 service...

Orbital Taps Saft For Satellite Batteries

Saft announced Oct. 4 that Orbital Sciences Corp. ordered lithium-ion batteries for the Panamsat PAS-11 satellite, and the Horizons-2 satellite being built for the Panamsat/JSAT Corp. joint venture. The rechargeable...