E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite Today 07-23-09] Orbital Sciences has delivered the Optus D3 satellite to Arianespace for its scheduled mid-August launch, Australian telecom Optus announced July 22.     Optus D3, the third D-series...

[Satellite Today 07-22-09] Lockheed Martin Space Systems quarterly net sales decreased by 7 percent to $2 billion from $2.2 billion in 2008, according to the company’s second-quarter financial results, released...

[Satellite Today 07-22-09] Qwest Communications has entered into agreement with DirecTV to sell its satellite TV service to DirecTV customers for another five years     The companies said the service...

[Satellite Today 07-22-09] Avaya has entered into an asset and share sale agreement in efforts to purchase Nortel, an enterprise communication solution business, which involves manufacturing satellite network products, for...

[Satellite Today 07-22-09] Briese Schiffahrt, a German shipping operator, has installed Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband 150 (FB150) service, Inmarsat announced July 20.     Briese Schiffahrt is the first shipping company in Europe...

[Satellite Today 07-22-09] SkyBitz, a remote asset tracking and information management service provider, appointed Craig Montgomery senior vice president of marketing and business development, the company announced July 20.     ...

[Satellite Today 07-21-09] German broadcaster ProSiebenSat1 Media and SES Astra are set to launch three high-definition (HD) channels in Germany as part of SES’s HD+ service, SES announced July 20....

[Satellite Today 07-21-09] MTN Satellite Services, a SeaMobile company, signed a multi-year capacity deal with SES Americom-New Skies for one-and-a-half transponders on the NSS-12 satellite, scheduled for launch this fall,...

[Satellite Today 07-21-09] Thales Alenia Space was awarded a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an experimental re-entry test-bed spacecraft, intended to demonstrate re-entry technologies for complex...

[Satellite Today 07-21-09] BP Corp. extended its contract with Hughes Network Systems to continue providing BP with managed network services connecting 16,000 retail locations in the United States, United Kingdom,...