Focus: Telecom

[Satellite TODAY 07-05-10]  Eutelsat has appointed Andrew Wallace CCO, the company announced July 2.     Wallace replaces Olivier Milliès-Lacroix, who will leave the company this month to pursue other interests...

[Satellite TODAY 07-05-10] The Nilesat-201 and Rascom-QAF1R satellites have been delivered to Arianespace in French Guiana in preparation for their Aug. 3 launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced...

[Satellite News 07-02-10] While China Satellite Communications Corp. (CASC) is planning to use capacity on its satellites to support a new DTH service in China, which could launch this year,...

Eutelsat’s Middle East aspirations were given a shot in the arm thanks to a deal in Qatar. In mid-May, the operator signed a deal with ictQatar (representing the State of...

The opening of CommunicAsia comes at what could be the beginning of a new era in the Asia-Pacific region. For many years, the satellite communications sector has viewed the region...

What is telecommunications? Most people will point to the Greek prefix tele, meaning “distance,” and say that telecommunications is “communications at a distance.” Dictionaries define telecommunications as the science and...

In what has been described as an unprecedented event, the Orbital Sciences-built, Intelsat-owned-and-operated Galaxy 15 satellite stopped communicating with ground controllers April 5. But the satellite’s C-band payload remained operational...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-10] Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to build the W5A satellite based on its Eurostar E3000 platform, the operator announced June 30.     Scheduled for launch in the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-10] L-3 Telemetry-West has been contracted by Orbcomm to upgrade its satellite control center for the Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) program, L-3 TW announced June 30.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-10]  SES Astra signed a satellite broadband deal with French WiMax operator Wibox for the distribution of SES Astra’s satellite-based broadband service Astra2Connect, the operator announced June 30....