Author: Staff Writer

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] EADS Astrium has been appointed the prime contractor to lead a European consortium to develop and build the Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellite for the European Space...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] The first high-definition (HD) public broadcast channel to German speaking countries, ORF HD, will launch in early May, SES Astra confirmed April 17. After the launch...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Satamatics, a global provider of satellite telematics asset tracking and monitoring services, has sold more than 50,000 SAT-201 satellite terminals, the company said April 16.    ...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Arqiva will roll out a new international high-definition (HD) platform for occasional use broadcasting, the company announced April 16.     Arqiva’s Washington Teleport will take feeds...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Thales is undergoing a major restructuring of its management team, Chairman and CEO Denis Ranque announced April 16.     Pascale Sourisse, formerly the senior vice president...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. increased revenues and net income in the first quarter of 2008, the company announced April 17.     Orbital’s revenues increased by 30 percent...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Raytheon Co. has won a $61 million contract to complete the development and certification of next-generation global positioning receivers for the U.S. Air Force, Raytheon announced...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) has been launched and the first signals successfully acquired, the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) announced...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Boeing Co. subsidiary Boeing Launch Services has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe’s second WorldView satellite, Boeing announced April 16.     A Delta 2 expendable...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Viasat will launch direct-to-home (DTH) services in Ukraine at the beginning of next week, its parent company Modern Times Group (MTG) announced April 16. Viasat Ukraine...