Uncategorized

ATK has been named the prime contractor to design, develop, test and evaluate the first stage propulsion system for NASA‘s next-generation crew launch vehicle, ATK announced. The first stage will […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Rocket System Corp. plan to launch the Multi-functional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSat-2) Feb. 15. The satellite will be lofted into orbit aboard an […]

Loral Space & Communications Inc.‘s common stock began trading Dec. 8 on the Nasdaq market under the symbol LORL, Loral announced. The company issued 18.7 million shares, or about 94 […]

Shareholders of SES Global approved a motion to cancel 50.1 million of the company’s shares that were repurchased, SES announced Dec. 8. SES acquired 77 percent of its shares for […]

Bellsouth Corp. and PDI-SAT will jointly market and deploy voice, data and DirecTV services to residential multi-dwelling units across BellSouth’s service territory, the companies announced Dec. 8. Under a non-exclusive […]

Mobile communications not only is critical to military operations, but also to enterprise verticals such as asset tracking, aviation and maritime services. Iridium Satellite LLC will be focusing on these […]

Members of the European Space Agency (ESA) approved a budget for 2006 through 2008 that includes a new earth observation program, ESA announced Dec. 6. The Global Monitoring for Environment […]

The major Inmarsat service providers – France Telecom Mobile Satellite Telecommunications, Stratos Global Corp., Telenor Satellite Services and Xantic – announced separately Dec. 7 the commercial availability of Inmarsat’s Broadband […]

Globalstar said Dec. 7 it received approval from the U.S. State Department to proceed with plans to launch up to eight spare satellites, with the first launch expected to occur […]

Eutelsat signed a deal with Morocco’s national public broadcaster, Société Nationale de Radio et de Télévision Marocaine (SNRT), to broadcast six television channels and four radio stations using Eutelsat’s Hot […]

Spacenet Inc. said Dec. 5 that Scientific Games International Inc. (SGI) has selected Spacenet to provide 3,000 Skystar Advantage VSAT terminals for state lottery networks in Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Dakota […]

Satellite radio services provider Worldspace Inc. announced Dec. 7 it surpassed 100,000 subscribers globally. During 2005, Worldspace has rolled out service in nine cities in India, which has enabled the […]

Ball Aerospace said Dec. 6 it completed the integration of the engineering models for three of the instruments scheduled to fly on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory […]

International Launch Services (ILS) has delayed the launch of a Proton rocket that will carry the AMC-23 satellite into orbit for SES Americom. Liftoff had been scheduled for Dec. 5. […]

German companies will receive additional work on Europe’s Galileo program, under an agreement reached Dec. 5 among European companies involved in the project. The latest agreement, signed by the eight […]

Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (CSR), the Canadian affiliate of XM Satellite Radio, said Dec. 6 it will offer more than 3.4 million shares of stock in an initial public […]

Globalstar LLC said Dec. 6 that Elsacom, an independent gateway operator and Globalstar service distributor in Central and Eastern Europe, won a 20 million euro ($23.6 million) contract to provide […]

The Modern Times Group (MTG), which owns the Viasat direct-to-home satellite television platform in the Nordic region, increased its stake in Nordic Betting Ltd. to 90 percent, MTG announced. MTG […]

Radyne Corp. said Dec. 6 it completed shipment of a previously undisclosed order of DMD-20 satellite modems, valued at more than $1.6 million, to Chinasat Communications Group. The modems will […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio said Dec. 5 it launched subscription service in Chandigarh, the capital of India’s Punjab state. Chandigarh, the ninth city Worldspace has rolled out service to in 2005, […]

ViaSat said Dec. 5 it is supplying its Surfbeam broadband satellite network to Telesat, enabling Telesat customers in Colombia to provide Internet access to schools and other projects. Telesat customers […]

Alcatel Alenia Space signed a deal with China Satellite Communication Corp. to design and manufacture the Chinasat 6B satellite, Alcatel announced Dec. 5. Chinasat 6B will be based on the […]

Datapath Inc. said Dec. 5 it received a $42.4 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Ft. Monmouth, N.J., for custom satellite earth terminals and associated services. Datapath […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. said Dec. 5 it received an $11.7 million contract from Foothill Transit of West Covina, Calif., to provide a Smartbus System to track and manage Foothill Transit’s […]

EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., said Dec. 5 that Venezuela’s Insituto National de Aviacion Civil awarded EMS Satcom a $2.9 million contract for the company’s search and […]

U.K. cable operator NTL confirmed that it has made an approach for wireless operator Virgin Mobile. If the deal, which would be in the $1.5 billion range, were to go […]

German satellite pay TV operator Premiere broadcast its first live high-definition (HD) program Dec. 3 as part of a field test for subscribers. The soccer match between VfB Stuttgart and […]

Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege has been elected vice chairman of the executive council of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC). Raduege assumes the position held […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) received a patent from European Patent Office for ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology that will be used in the formation of a hybrid satellite/wireless communications network, […]

Penny Glover, managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for EMS Technologies Inc.’s Satellite Networks Division, and her diving partner were reported missing following a Nov. 21 deep-sea dive […]