Author: Staff Writer

Thrane & Thrane said Oct. 5 the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the company a five-year schedule contract through which government agencies can procure and deploy Thrane & Thrane’s...

Spectrum Signal Processing (USA) Inc. announced Oct. 5 it received a $1 million contract from Globalstar LLC to provide the Mobile Satellite Services provider with enhanced asset tracking functionality. The...

Saft announced Oct. 4 that Orbital Sciences Corp. ordered lithium-ion batteries for the Panamsat PAS-11 satellite, and the Horizons-2 satellite being built for the Panamsat/JSat Corp. joint venture. The rechargeable...

Digitalglobe announced Oct. 4 that it is planning to launch a second next-generation imagery satellite that will be paired with the first Worldview satellite, being developed under a U.S. government...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB is likely to come under more pressure from cable following the Oct. 3 announcement of a merger between the United Kingdom’s two cable operators, NTL...

Telesat announced Oct. 3 that is began commercial service on its Anik F1R satellite. The satellite, which carries 32 Ku-band transponders, 24 C-band transponders and two navigation transponders, provides broadcasting...

L-3 Communications captured a pair of contracts to provide components for military satellite communications programs, the company announced. L-3 Communication Systems-East received a contract from Lockheed Martin to design and...

Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) signed a contract to support research at the Canadian Department of National Defence intended to derive military information from Radarsat-1 imagery, MDA announced Oct....

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Oct. 3 it received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office relevant to future multi-spotbeam satellite systems, particularly broadband multi-spotbeam satellite systems supporting...

African DTH operator Multichoice expects its DStv personal video recorder (PVR) to be available in retail stores in the fourth quarter, the company announced. The PVR decoder is the latest...