Author: JJ McCoy

SkyNet-5A, the first of three military communications satellites for the U.K. Ministry of Defense, has entered service, Astrium announced May 10. Through subsidiary Paradigm Secure Communications, Astrium is the prime...

Boeing Co. demonstrated a fully autonomous, free-flight rendezvous and capture operation, while Northrop Grumman Corp. conducted multiple fluid transfers between two space vehicles using the Orbital Express system, the companies...

Yousuf Al Sayed, CEO of Thuraya, confirmed reports that his company will keep the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite with Sea Launch despite delays stemming from a January failure. Thuraya-3...

EchoStar Communications Corp. reported total revenue of $2.6 billion in the 2007 first quarter, up 15 percent from the same period a year ago, the company announced May 10. Net...

Video applications drove a 10 percent increase in Eutelsat’s 2007 third-quarter revenues, the company announced May 10. Eutelsat posted revenues of 205.7 million euros ($278.6 million) in the quarter, which...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the fourth European Satellite Navigation Competition, to offer a grand prize of 10,000 euros ($13,600) for a groundbreaking satellite navigation idea. Competitors can...

Russian direct-to-home operator NTV-Plus will launch high-definition (HD) services using OpenTV’s digital television solutions, OpenTV announced May 8. NTV-Plus, owned by Gazprom-Media, delivers more than 90 channels to 560,000 subscribers....

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., delivered its MonicsNet Satellite Carrier Monitoring system to Advantech Satellite Networks Inc. for use in the Saudi Aramco Satellite Communications...

ViaSat Inc. will provide a 7.3-meter antenna system to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) that will be used to support the Korean Multipurpose Satellite (Kompsat) program, ViaSat announced May...

WildBlue Communications Inc. and AT&T have expanded their AT&T Yahoo! Broadband via Satellite (Provided by WildBlue) program throughout a 22-state wireline footprint, WildBlue announced May 9. WildBlue provides high-speed Internet...