E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite Today 07-14-08] Broadcast International announced that the Mexican Patent Office granted the company a patent for its multi-codec video compression technology, CodecSys.     The technology lowers bandwidth requirements for […]

The United States needs to begin a national dialogue on just how open it should be to procuring military and space wares from abroad, and what the proper role of […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08] Echo Satellite Communications Inc. has supplied U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) with the first order for HeliSat3 Iridium repeater systems, the company announced HeliSat3 was developed […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] currently is competing for about $14 billion worth of additional satellite/space-related business, an area that already generates $3.2 billion of annual revenues, according to Craig Cooning, […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08] Sea Launch has initiated a 72-hour countdown for the launch of EchoStar 11, the company announced.     Built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the spacecraft carries a Ku-band […]

Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, the International Space Station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, ventured outside the space station to remove an explosive bolt from their docked Soyuz space vehicle. The […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08] After multiple delays, the approval and merger of the Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio should be approved by the end of July, Tom Watts, an […]

Adding a propulsion system and navigation gear to the International Space Station (ISS) could turn the $156 billion orbiting laboratory complex into an interplanetary spaceship, a writer on space issues […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08] BSkyB signed a new contract with one of the U.K.’s top telcos, Thus, to continue to carry calls for BSkyB’s SkyTalk service, the satellite operator said July […]

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining to work on cooperative programs and technologies for a human encampment on the moon. That would involve, on the part of […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08]  Arabsat has announced a new long-term contract with a top Middle East and African ISP for capacity on the BADR-6 satellite, Arabsat said July 14.     Talia […]

Ariane 5 Lofts ProtoStar I And BADR-6 Satellites Into Orbit An Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, and carried two […]

[Satellite Today 07-14-08]  The capacity of the W5 satellite has been permanently reduced due to the technical problems the satellite suffered in June, satellite operator Eutelsat announced July 11.     […]

Astrium Gains European Space Agency Contract For ISS Work The European Space Agency (ESA) transferred work on operating and using the European share of the International Space Station (ISS) to […]

[Satellite News – 07-15-08] After battling government red tape, hostile Congressmen and lobbying groups for more than a year, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio seem on the cusp […]

Testing is complete on the first of a dozen GPS IIF satellites, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those environmental tests confirm mechanical integrity of the spacecraft. The program is on […]

[Satellite Today 07-11-08] Columbus Geographic Systems (GIS) Ltd. reached an agreement with DigitalGlobe for access to the satellite operator’s digital image bank for use in navigation systems, Columbus announced July […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-08] GeoEye Inc.’s GeoEye-1 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in advanced of its scheduled Aug. 22 launch, GeoEye announced.     GeoEye-1 will provide black-and-white imagery […]

[Satellite Today 07-11-08] Modern Times Group (MTG), which runs satellite pay-TV operations in the Nordics and Eastern Europe, appointed Irina Gofman CEO of MTG Russia & CIS, the company said […]

[Satellite Today 07-11-08] Reporters Without Borders has called on Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta to react to a recorded conversation the organization claims took place between a Eutelsat employee in Beijing […]

[Satellite News 07-11-08] In the early 1980s, Fred Sampliner, president of his family-owned and operated collection agency, Sampliner Worldwide Collections, saw the satellite industry as a wide-open market.     “It […]

[Satellite Today 07-11-08] General Dynamics C4 Systems was awarded a contract option to continue development, qualification and certification of an encryption module that will be used to secure telemetry, tracking […]

[Satellite Today 07-11-08] Eutelsat is to play a key role in reducing the digital divide in the Piedmont region of Italy, the company said July 10.     Under a memorandum […]

[Satellite Today – 07-10-08] SES Americom and SES New Skies will be combined into a single operating segment, parent company SES announced July 10. Robert Bednarek, president and CEO of […]

[Satellite Today – 07-10-08] Ciel Satellite Group received approval from the Canadian government to develop several orbital slots, SES, the primary shareholder of Ciel, said July 9.     Industry Canada […]

[Satellite Today 07-10-08] Integral Systems Inc. named John Higginbotham the company’s new CEO effective immediately, Integral announced July 9.     Higginbotham founded private equity firm SpaceVest Capital (now RedShift Ventures) […]

[Satellite Today – 07-10-08] Pace expects to perform ahead of expectations over the next year, the company said July 10.     The set-top box manufacturer expects to benefit from a […]

[Satellite Today – 07-10-08] Arqiva is supporting a new military history channel launching on BSkyB’s direct-to-home platform, Arqiva said July 9.     Under a five-year contract, Arqiva will provide playout […]

[Satellite Today – 07-10-08] Magellan Aerospace delivered the Cassiope small satellite platform to Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), Magellan announced.     The first of the MAC-200 small satellite buses […]

[Satellite News – 07-09-08] Panasonic has licensed iDirect’s satellite IP router hardware and spread spectrum mobile waveform for a system that will provide broadband access to aircraft.     The iDirect […]