Author: JJ McCoy

Russia To Provide Glonass Access For Free

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on May 18 making access to civilian navigation signals from the Glonass navigation satellite system free and without restriction, the Kremlin press service...

Iridium To Support Connect Africa Initiative

Iridium Satellite will be an official supplier to Connect Africa, a not-for-profit organization aiming to introduce mobile communication and public service facilities to rural communities across Africa, Iridium announced May...

XM Radio Suffers 'Degraded Performance'

XM Satellite Radio reported “experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers” on May 21. The company said it expected to return to normal service...

Korea Plans To Make Satellite Imagery Available

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology plans to begin selling images collected by the Arirang-2 satellite to foreign countries through France’s Spot Image.   Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported...

Orbcomm Signs Deal With Wireless Carrier

Orbcomm signed a deal with an unidentified American wireless carrier to begin offering terrestrial wireless services to complement its existing satellite-based wireless services, Orbcomm announced May 16. Orbcomm will resell...

Swedish Space Prepares For Sirius-4 Satellite

Swedish Space Corp. has been chosen by SES Sirius to run the implementation and operations of the next-generation Sirius-4 satellite, Swedish Space announced May 17. The satellite, being manufactured by...