Technology

[Via Satellite 12-03-2015] Plans to boost to the satellite Search and Rescue (SAR) system in New Zealand and Australia are well underway as a New Zealand-based, $7.2 million satellite ground...

[Via Satellite 12-02-2015] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has delivered 11 Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, for Orbcomm’s upcoming...

[Via Satellite 12-02-2015] Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems (EOS) have broken ground on a new space object tracking facility in Australia that aims to provide commercial and government customers...

[Via Satellite 12-02-2015] Norsat International has released its ATOM 25-Watt Ka-band Block Upconverter (BUC) and Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) products. The 25W ATOM Ka BUC is software switchable between...

[Via Satellite 12-01-2015] The newest satellite in Russian Satellite Communications Company’s fleet, Express AM8, was commissioned today, Dec. 1, at its nominal orbital slot of 14 degrees West. Express AM8...

[Via Satellite 11-25-2015] Just after successfully launching its latest satellite, Telstar 12 Vantage, Telesat has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) to build its new High Throughput Satellite (HTS), Telstar 19...

[Via Satellite 11-25-2015] KBZ Gateway, a subsidiary of Myanmar’s KBZ Group of Companies, has selected Hughes Network Systems’ Jupiter system as the platform for a new high-availability satellite broadband network...

[Via Satellite 11-23-2015] Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, today announced that all communications and signals from the AMOS 5 satellite at the 17 degrees east orbital position have...

[Via Satellite 11-20-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) is kicking off a new program providing free launches to academia for CubeSat missions on the Atlas 5 rocket. The program signals a...

[Via Satellite 11-20-2015] Starting with nine satellites and later scaling up to 48, San Jose, Calif.-based Hera Systems revealed its intentions to launch a constellation of high-resolution Earth Observation (EO) satellites...