E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite Today 07-13-09] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has shipped the AsiaSat 5 satellite, built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Ltd. (AsiaSat), to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it is […]

[Satellite Today 07-13-09] Telesat has finalized a $69 million deal with APT Satellite to transfer its interest in the Telstar 10 satellite back to APT, Telesat announced July 9.     […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) signed a long-term satellite distribution agreement with European direct-to-home provider UPC Direct to supply seven transponders to relocate UPC’s current broadcast traffic to […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] ViaSat signed contracts worth a combined $53 million with pan-African satellite operator RascomStar-QAF to support an expansion of telephone and Internet access availability in the region, ViaSat […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] Orbital Sciences Corp. won a $40 million contract to build a science satellite for NASA, the company announced July 9.     Orbital Sciences will design, manufacture, integrate […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received an additional $6.8 million of funding from the U.S. Army to provide additional Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] Scalable Network Technologies (SNT), a wireless network evaluation service, was awarded a $2 million phase 2.5 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Army to […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Norsat has initiated a new marketing campaign to promote its growth to shareholders in Canada and the United States, the company announced July 8.     Norsat has […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] The Cable Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) formed a joint initiative with SNL Kagan, a provider of financial and operational information on the global media and […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Comtech EF Data Corp. has rolled out an adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) capability for its CDM-625 advanced satellite modem, which is optimized by pairing the system […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall has been named co-chairman of the EU-Japan Business Round Table, Arianespace announced July 8.     Le Gall will serve a two-year term. […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Raytheon Co. has launched a satellite imagery upgrade application for the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that will allow the agency to improve its ingestion and dissemination […]

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Telespazio has taken over management of a Galileo satellite constellation control center, the company said July 8.     Telespazio will begin cabling the entire structure as well […]

[Satellite Today 07-08-09] Viasat Broadcasting signed a deal with Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 Group to add TV4 Play to Viasat OnDemand, the company announced July 7.     Viasat Broadcasting, which […]

[Satellite Today 07-08-09] Intelsat served as the exclusive satellite carrier for the live global distribution of the July 7 Michael Jackson Memorial Service under a contract with concert promoter AEG […]

[Satellite Today 07-08-09] DEV Systemtechnik launched a family of L-band multiplexers and demultiplexers designed to assist satellite ground stations operators and cable head end stations with monitoring RF signals, the […]

[Satellite Today 07-08-09] SkyVision has purchased an iDirect Series 15000 universal satellite hub to launch its Evolution network covering Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia with […]

[Satellite News 07-07-09] North American sports broadcaster, ESPN is intent on becoming more of a force on the international landscape, Russell Wolff, executive vice president and managing director of ESPN […]

[Satellite Today 07-07-09] Northrop Grumman has completed testing on a core section model of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope, Northrop Grumman announced July 6.     The core model, built by […]

[Satellite Today 07-07-09] The Sirius XM Radio application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch has been downloaded more than 2 million times within two weeks of its release, Sirius XM […]

[Satellite Today 07-07-09] Nagravision, a subsidiary of Kudelski Group, signed a contract with Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações (Embratel) to supply conditional access system for Embratel’s direct-to-home (DTH) service, Via Embratel, […]

[Satellite Today 07-07-09] Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) deployed its Warrior Satellite Monitoring and Surveillance System for law enforcement agency markets, the company announced July 6.      The Warrior System […]

[Satellite Today 07-07-09] Iridium Satellite teamed up with Stratos Global Corp. to provide satellite communication equipment and services for Around the Americas, a sailing expedition that aims to collect scientific […]

[Satellite Today 07-06-09] The first line of a July 3 story, titled "WorldView-2 Launch Date Set," should read: WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe‘s high-resolution multi-spectral satellite, will be placed in orbit Oct. 6 […]

[Satellite Today 07-06-09] The Indian direct-to-home (DTH) market will still see strong levels of growth despite the economic recession, according to a report by research company RNCOS, released July 6. […]

[Satellite Today 07-06-09] U.K. based set-top box supplier Pace said it will meet its management expectations for the first half of 2009, according to a company-issued trading update released July […]

[Satellite Today 07-06-09] The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) admitted Poland as a member state, Eumetsat announced July 6.     As a member state, Poland will […]

[Satellite Today 07-03-09] ABI Research expects the number of paying handset-based turn-by-turn navigation users to increase to 26 million by the end of 2010, primarily driven by strong growth in […]

[Satellite Today 07-03-09] Numerex Corp., a provider of secure machine-to-machine satellite network services and solutions, signed a technology alliance with iControl Networks, a broadband home management solution that delivers interactive […]

[Satellite Today 07-03-09] A U.S. Federal Court of Appeals granted EchoStar Corp.’s request to stay a contempt order imposed by the U.S. District Court in June, pending the outcome of […]