Author: Staff Writer

Orbital Sciences Corp. received a contract from a joint venture of Panamsat Corp. and JSat Corp. to build the Horizons-2 satellite, Orbital announced Aug. 30. Horizons-2, based on Orbital’s Star...

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Aug. 30 that it has added a one-year extension to its contract with the Iraqi Telecom & Post Company (ITPC). The satellite services company will provide...

Echostar Communications Corp. debuted a new feature that will give customers the ability to watch six channels and use an interactive menu at the same time, Echostar announced Aug. 30....

A study commissioned by Sirius Canada found that 76 percent of Canadians support the government’s decision to allow satellite radio operators to offer service in Canada, the company announced. The...

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has said that weather satellites first spotted the development of Hurricane Katrina, which has battered the Gulf Coast of the...

Intelsat Ltd. has agreed to acquire Panamsat for $3.2 billion to create the world’s largest Fixed Satellite Services company. The combined company, which will retain the name Intelsat, will operate...

Glowlink will supply a satellite spectrum monitoring and interference detection system to Brazilian satellite operator Star One for, Glowlink announced Aug. 29. “Star One is one of the most important...

The Russian government has re-established a communications link with an environmental satellite after losing contact with the spacecraft shortly after its Aug. 27 launch. Ground controllers lost the Monitor-E satellite...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said Aug. 25 that testing of the first Galileo satellites, which form part of what is called the Galileo System Test Bed (GSTB), is underway...

NSE & PA Speculation on the Intelsat acquisition of New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. continues to grow. New Skies announced Aug. 25 it was offloading a couple of teleports in...