E-letter: News Feed

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) launched an unmanned probe to the moon, notching up Asian competition involving the pale orb, according to the Japan Times. Named Kaguya after a […]

Celebrating Half A Century Of American Space Flight The American space program, celebrating its half-century mark, has given birth to a vibrant, expanding economy worth $180 billion in 2005, an […]

Calling reliance on Russia to launch U.S. crews into space "very dangerous," Rep. David Weldon (R-Fla.) is working on legislation that would shorten the time that astronauts would need a […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] NSSL has become the sole provider of commercial satellite communications for the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD), the company announced Sept. 13. The contract, an extension […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] Telespazio, the Italian satellite operator, has won a key military contract in Italy, the company said Sept. 13. The operator has signed a 118 million euros […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today]  SES Astra has signed a capacity deal with one of Germany’s top channel providers, the company announced Sept. 14. The extra capacity will enable the German […]

[09/14/07 – Satellite News] Smart Communications CEO Napoleon Nazareno admitted to Satellite News it was “a possibility” that the operator could use satellite technology when offering mobile TV services in […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today]  AeroAstro has won two contracts to provide communications equipment to NASA and another unnamed U.S. government agency, the company announced Sept. 12. AeroAstro, a business unit […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] Lunar Orbit Explorer Kaguya was launched successfully at 10:31 a.m. Japan Standard Time,      Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Sept. […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  SES Global South America Holdings has signed a five-year agreement with AR-SAT for five transponders on the AMC-6 satellite, the company announced Sept. 13. Empresa Argentina […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07] Avanti Communications Group’s Hylas satellite will be launched in 2009 using a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) rocket, the company announced Sept. 13. Hylas, a Ka-band […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  Spacenet Inc. has introduced a new mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle (ECV) for disaster recovery and first-responder organizations, the company announced Sept. 13. The ECV is based […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07] Canalsat, the French direct-to-home operator with more than five million subscribers, said Sept. 12, that it had signed a new deal with Philips for advanced High-Definition […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) announced Sept. 12, the winners of a new set of individual licences for commercial satellite and cable subscription […]

[Satellite News – 9-13-07] It is not every day a major European pay-TV operator enters into a new market with a population of close to 50 million people, but that […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Integral Systems Inc. repurchased more than a million shares of its common stock at $27.00 per share, for a total of $49.95 million, the company announced […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] The Boeing Company has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, the company announced Sept. 12. The […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Entavio will be broadcasting German handball, basketball and volleyball league games thanks to an agreement with Sportdigital.tv, the company announced Sept. 12. Entavio is a fully […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to supply the Department of Defense with communications and services, the company announced Sept. 12. […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite News] Inmarsat’s announcement earlier this year that the company planned to enter the handheld market is a bold statement of intent. The company aims to be a […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Iridium is going to provide the Swedish Armed Forces with critical communications service, the company announced Sept. 12. The Iridium satellite services are being supplied under […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Shin Satellite has signed a key deal to bring its state-of-the-art satellite broadband services to Malaysia, the company announced Sept. 11. The company has signed a […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] The Modern Times Group (MTG) is the latest player to look to tap into the pay-TV market in the Ukraine. The company, announced that through its […]

Inmarsat’s announcement earlier this year that the company planned to enter the handheld market is a bold statement of intent. The company aims to be a key player in the […]

The article titled“Proton Failure Destroys JCSAT-11”in the Sept. 6 issue of    Satellite News should have read that ILS had two or three more launches planned before the end of the […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] QinetiQ has developed a secure tracking system based on Iridium satellites, the company announced Sept. 11. The Mobile Asset Information Acquisition (MAIA) system provides a secure, […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] Spacenet Inc. has signed a sales agent agreement with Tessco Inc., the company announced Sept. 11. Tessco,  a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessco Technologies Inc., will […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  DirecTV and Thomson are launching a satellite television service for multi-family dwellings like apartment complexes, the company announced Sept. 11. The DirecTV MFH3 (Multi-Family Housing version […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Globecast and Arabsat will be extending their partnership until 2014, the companies announced Sept. 11. The two companies have expanded the worldwide distribution of the Arabsat/ASBU […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Arianespace has won a new deal to launch four satellites for a key European space program, the company announced September 11. It has signed a deal […]