Author: JJ McCoy

SES New Skies Signs African Deal

SES New Skies has signed a five-year deal with one of Africa’s largest VSAT companies for capacity on its NSS-7 satellite, the operator announced July 31. SES New Skies said...

BSkyB Closes in on Amstrad

BSkyB is planning to spend 125 million British pounds ($253.0 million) to acquire British set-top box vendor Amstrad, BSkyB announced July 31. The direct-to-home operator said that its wholly owned...

Ball Aerospace Ready To Ship WorldView 1

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed assembly and performance testing of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 1 remote sensing satellite, Ball reported July 30. Ball, DigitalGlobe and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency...

RT Logic Releases Satellite Channel Simulator

RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., has released a new satellite channel simulator, the T400CS, the company announced July 30. The simulator emulates the channel characteristics...