January 2008 Satellite NewsVisit www.satnews.com for today's news
January 31, 2008 Soaring SAR Brings Images Home To Israel Two weeks ago, the Israeli sneak-a-peek satellite TESCAR was launched with its SAR capabilities, super imaging surveillance radar.
Full Story
ASC Signal Corporation Given Birth All of the Satellite Communications business components of Andrew Corporation have now been sold to Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Full Story
Uplink Amplification From MCL The newly introduced MT2300 outdoor TWT amplifier from MCL is a low-power, cost-effective, reliable solution that will meet any satellite uplinking requirement.
Full Story
SES Is Very Serious About Sirius SES [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] which provides satellite communications solutions via a fleet of 38 satellites in 25 orbital positions around the globe, and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has exercised a ‘put option’ transferring to SES ASTRA an additional 15 percent equity stake in SES SIRIUS.
Full Story
IPnet Has Hughes HX Teleport Plans For Russia IPNet, a satellite telecom operator, is going to build a new teleport based on the HUGHES HX platform and it will be located close to the company’s current central hub in the MGU technopark in Moscow.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Boeing The Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] 2007 net income increased 84 percent to a record $4.1 billion, or $5.28 per share, up from $2.2 billion, or $2.85 per share, in 2006 on higher commercial airplane deliveries, strong growth in defense earnings, companywide productivity improvements, and certain charges recorded in 2006.
Full Story
Beaming Beatles—A First For NASA On February 4th, NASA is going to beam The Beatles' song "Across the Universe" directly into deep space. The transmission will occur over NASA's Deep Space Network to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song.
Full Story
NASA's STS-122 Launch No Longer "Hosed" NASA senior managers completed a review Wednesday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight. Pending closure of an issue with a shuttle radiator hose, the STS-122 mission will launch February 7th at 2:45 p.m. EST.
Full Story
NASA's STS-123 Truly Has International Flavor Space shuttle Endeavour’s next flight to the International Space Station will truly be an international endeavor.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At ND SatCom ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has appointed Johann Pohany to the position of CTO.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Psi Systems Psi Systems, Inc., a global satellite communications provider and systems integrator, has announced the appointment of Michael Pollack as Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] reported revenue for its second quarter of fiscal year 2008 of $1.3 billion, an increase of 30 percent compared to $1.0 billion in the prior- year quarter.
Full Story
Isaac Newton in Attendance at the Royal Society There he was. Well, actually, it was his portrait on the wall. Isaac Newton, the first president of the Royal Society, was present in spirit at the 2008 meeting entitled, “Exploiting the New Earth Observation Paradigm,” conducted in London last week, and organized by Trident Sensors Ltd.
Full Story
digiGO!—The Digital World — Yahoo! + Microsoft — Antex Electronics + Playnetwork — Hybrid MC — NAB + FASTROAD — Second Life + iMagicLab — Yahoo! — Zaxcom — Microsoft + WSJ — PopCap — — Yahoo! + Microsoft — Antex Electronics + Playnetwork — Hybrid MC — NAB + FASTROAD — Second Life + iMagicLab — Yahoo! — Zaxcom — Microsoft + WSJ — PopCap —
Full Story
January 30, 2008 Bolivian Floods Initiate TSF Action Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) deployed a crew of emergency telecom specialists to Bolivia last Saturday. TSF’s team, which flew out from its base in Nicaragua, landed at 4:00 a.m. local time in La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia.
Full Story
Iridium Hankerin' For SatPhone Biz Via New Rebate Program Iridium Satellite has introduced their Trade-Up to Iridium. This is a new rebate program that provides pricing incentives for North American customers switching from Globalstar to Iridium.
Full Story
We Wanna WIKI, SatWise, That Is SES AMERICOM has debuted satellitewiki.com, a wiki devoted to the satellite industry. The timing of the debut coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Sky Connect There is a new Channel Sales Director at Sky Connect, a company offering a range of Iridium satellite-based tracking and telephone systems for helicopter, fixed-wing, ground-based and marine apps in commercial and government markets.
Full Story
WGS Use By Warfighters Could Be Earlier Than Planned With six satellites planned for the WGS system, and considering the fact that the latest satellite is exceeding key requirements, the U.S. Air Force may be able to place the first Wideband Global SATCOM into use earlier than anticipated.
Full Story
Now A Fully Operational Sirius Sat The Lockheed Martin built Sirius 4 comsat is now in operation and has taken over all transmissions from Sirius 2 and Sirius 3. This announcement from SES SIRIUS, an SES ASTRA company.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Vislink + MRC A fully listed UK quote company, Vislink plc supplies microwave radio and satellite transmission products for the broadcast and security markets and of CCTV systems for the marine security market. And the company has just announced Tony Finizio is to be the US Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Vislink Group Chief Executive Ian Scott-Gall.
Full Story
NSR Sees Strong Demand For SatApp Equipment The research firm NSR has released their newest market intelligence and forecast report: MPEG4 and DVB-S2: Assessing Implementation Schedules for Advanced Video Compression and Satellite Modulation.
Full Story
Global Involvement In New Yahsat Launch International Launch Services (ILS) of the United States, Thales Alenia Space of France, and Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (Yahsat) of the United Arab Emirates have jointly announced an agreement to launch a Yahsat spacecraft on a Proton Breeze M vehicle.
Full Story
Delta Planning By ULA United Launch Alliance is restructuring their Delta II program to make it more cost-effective in a challenging market.
Full Story
digiGO!—The Digital World—Continental Airlines + LiveTV LLC — NSR Report — Ross Video — Wohler Technologies — —Continental Airlines + LiveTV LLC — NSR Report — Ross Video — Wohler Technologies —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Gas & Oil SatCom Users Could Learn More From SMi - SatTV + Wi-Fi Coming To Continental Airlines
Full Story
January 29, 2008 Chinese + Brazilian Satellite Send Home Photos It's a first — a hi-def Earth resources satellite co-developed by China National Space Administration (CNSA) and Brazil now provides hi-def photos.
Full Story
MSV Does More Than Talk About Rescue Mutual Aid, having experienced such for ourselves, is a godsend to first responders and those who directly involve themselves in the safety and rescue of others.
Full Story
Juniper Delivers Energized Ethernet Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has expanded their high-performance network infrastructure offerings with a new family of Ethernet switches.
Full Story
What A Truckload Of Goodness From SkyBitz For CPx Coastal Pacific Xpress Inc. (CPx) is one of the largest and fastest-growing truckload carriers in Canada. That company has selected the patented Global Locating System (GLS) asset tracking technology from SkyBitz for its fleet of more than 700 trailers.
Full Story
AFRICASAT-1 Is Now "For Real" With MEASAT MEASAT supplies satcom services to Asian broadcasters, DTH platforms and telecom operators, The company has just expanded their MESAT satellite network into Africa with the commissioning of the AFRICASAT-1 satellite at 46° E.
Full Story
Vizada’s Trade-In to Trade-Up to Iridium It’s not exactly like super-sizing an order of McDonald’s French fries, but Vizada, a provider of global satellite communications solutions, announced its "Trade-Up to Iridium” program.
Full Story
Boeing Gets Next DIRECTV Sat To Sea Launch The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has announced the delivery of DIRECTV 11, the second of three new Boeing-built satellites for DIRECTV, Inc., to the Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California.
Full Story
Net & Wireless Development For Space Involves ISRO + Boeing + Others... Boeing [NYSE: BA] has an agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) plus two leading Indian information technology companies to develop wireless and other network technologies for aerospace-related applications.
Full Story
Chad-Bound Irish Peacekeepers Communications With Norsat Norsat International Inc. [TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF] provides intelligent satellite solutions. The company has been awarded approximately $1.1 million in contracts by the Republic of Ireland’s Department of Defence (DoD) to provide satellite system equipment, satellite capacity, training and network services for the Irish Defence Forces’ peacekeeping mission to Chad.
Full Story
SkyPort Global Communications Connects to Oil and Gas SkyPort Global Communications signed a three-year contract, valued at US$1.7 million, to provide satellite connectivity to the customers of Digital Networks LLC, an Oklahoma City-based firm that provides communications services to oil and gas clients.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World... — Juniper Networks — motionVFX — Dewmocracy — NEC Electronics — Omneon — Equity Media Holdings Corp. — Arqiva — NDS Group — — Juniper Networks — motionVFX — Dewmocracy — NEC Electronics — Omneon — Equity Media Holdings Corp. — Arqiva — NDS Group —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs If You Missed the First - Here's the Second Satellite Spring Forum - Moving On Up... At Longbottom Communications - China Affords iDirect Foreign Excellence Kudos
Full Story
January 28, 2008 Earth Station Management Gets Allot Enforcement Allot Communications has announced NSSL Satcom Solutions has deployed their NetEnforcer traffic management devices at its satellite earth station in Florida, controlled via its Network Operations Centre in Redhill, Surrey.
Full Story
... NEW ... FROM SatNews Publishers' Editorial Group ... SatNews Constellation InfoCast—the top six stories from last week's SatNews in our weekly, freshly created, podcast... this is the RSS feed link so you can enjoy the broadcast.
Full Story
Globecomm Signs On With Smithsonian Channel Globecomm Network Services Corporation, which provides satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, has been signed to a multi-year contract from Showtime Network Inc. to provide the new hi-def Smithsonian Channel, as part of the Showtime family of channels.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Boeing The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named veteran NASA space shuttle engineer John P. Mulholland the company;'s new Space Shuttle Vice President and Program Manager.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At KVH Industries There's a new Director of Sales, Satellite Products, at KVH Industries. He is Jim George and he'll manage the day to day efforts.
Full Story
Industry WOW Factor Winners To Be Awarded At SSPI Gala Event The Society of Satellite Professionals (SSPI) is a nonprofit, member-benefit society that serves satellite professionals throughout their working lives. The organization has announced the winners of its 2008 Industry Innovators Awards. The Industry Innovators Awards, introduced in 1993, recognize new and different designs, applications, activities and contributions to the satellite industry from the private and public sectors.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World — AudioSurf — CalRec Audio + Olympics — eBay + Fraud Sciences — Globecomm Network Services Corp. — Metro-Goldywn-Mayer Studios — Rexhaull Industries + KVH Industries — TDVision Systems — Zodiac Interactive —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs RASCOM Gets Cameroon Ground Commitment - Sintel Beaming Broadly Into Africa - U.S.A.F. Hardening Their Target
Full Story
January 27, 2008 digiGO!™—The Digital World — ABI Research — Epic Games + Unreal Tournament 3 + Game Developers Conference — Gefen — Googii — Lionshead + Marvel + WGA — Limelight Networks — Lulu + Hulu — Momail — Muze — Omnia Audio — Sony Playstation + UMD — Streambox — Yahoo —
Full Story
The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling—U.S. Spy Sat To Splat There has been plenty of coverage this past weekend regarding the U.S. spy satellite tumbling to Earth due to an engine failure... the satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere sometime late next month or early in March.
Full Story
Russian Comsat Gets Express Delivery The Express-AM33 launch initiated at the Baikonur, Kazahstan, launch center, occurred at 3:18 a.m., Moscow time — that's 23:18 GMT, Sunday).
Full Story
SatTV Piracy Gets Under ICASA's Purview The regulator of the telecom, broadcasting sectors and postal services in South Africa is ICASA and the agency has more than passing concerns regarding free digital satellite service Free2View and their satTV freebie broadcasts into sub-Saharan Africa which, of course, are also received in South Africa.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Lockheed Martin... Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] has reported fourth quarter 2007 net earnings of $799 million ($1.89 per diluted share), compared to $729 million ($1.68 per diluted share) in 2006.
Full Story
Crater View Is One Of Opportunity NASA's Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" landed on Mars on January 25th in 2004 approximately four miles north of the planet's Victoria Crater in a much smaller, 6 kilometer crater.
Full Story
SatTV On The Move With KVH + Rexhall Rexhall Industries, Inc. has luxurious coach vehicles and now they are even "tonier". Owners of AerBus and RexAir coaches can enjoy satellite TV on their new vehicles thanks to the TracVision R5 SL in-motion satellite TV system from KVH Industries (Nasdaq: KVHI).
Full Story
January 25, 2008 SES Going For Spacecom SES Global hopes to acquire Israel’s Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) and has made a bid for the company.
Full Story
January 24, 2008 Financially Speaking... Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] reported the company's results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2007.
Full Story
WGS Almost Ready To Support Full Ops The U.S. Air Force formally accepted the first Wideband Global SATCOM satellite on January 18th from its prime contractor, The Boeing Company.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Boeing Serving in India as The Boeing Company's Vice President of Engineering and Technology will be Naveed Hussain.
Full Story
NSR Looks At ComSat Transponder Leasing Sector In its recently released study covering the entire commercial satellite transponder leasing sector, NSR (Northern Sky Research) projects that worldwide carriage of new standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) channels for all categories of television services will account for between 75 percent and 85 percent of C- and Ku-band transponder demand growth in most regions around the world.
Full Story
BAE Working On Space Silicon + Acquires Australian Defense Firm BAE Systems is a global defense and aerospace company and delivers a full range of products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions, and customer support services. BAE Systems has signed an agreement with Actel Corp. to produce a radiation-hardened, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductor for space use. The company has also Bsigned an agreement to acquire a leading Australian defense contractor, Tenix Defence, for A$775 million.
Full Story
Lockheed Martin Gains More For TSAT An additional $336 million in funding has been received by Lockheed Martin to continue their work on the ground-based mission ops system for TSAT (Transformational Satellite Communications).
Full Story
Virgin Galactic Champions Cause With New Spacecraft Virgin Galactic herald's "The Year of the Spaceship" with the unveiling of the designs of SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World — CASBAA — equinux — France Telecom Orange — XOrbit — Blu-ray — World of Warcraft — Virgin Media + News Corp —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs ASD Brings In Miteq for Australian + New Zealand Users - Israeli + India To Cooperate On Two More Sats - Red Herring Has UDcast Veep On Panel - C2SATisfied With New Antenna Order - The Mighty French Orange Going After Canal Plus - Telespazio To Build SatServices In Iraq
Full Story
January 23, 2008 Northrop Grumman + IAI Have Already Offered SAR Goodie To U.S. Last Monday witnessed the successful launch of the TECSAR satellite by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the Israeli vehicle.
Full Story
Northrop's Ears Helps Japanese "Listen" After deploying successfully onboard the SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) space vehicle launched by Japan, the four specialized antennas built by Northrop Grumman Corporation are functioning exactly as they were expected for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) first large lunar explorer.
Full Story
Nowhere Near 1492, However, Colombus Will Set Sail Again—In Space With NASA's recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday, February 7th, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.
Full Story
Integral Handovers and Handoffs WGS To CCS-C Integral Systems, Inc., [NASDAQ-ISYS] has completed the handover of satellite bus operations for the initial WGS [Wideband Global SATCOM (Satellite Communications)] satellite to the CCS-C (Command and Control System – Consolidated)baseline—on schedule.
Full Story
Sweet! Swedish Space Corp.’s Good Boy, Odin Odin, the Swedish satellite, must have great genetics as it has outlived its projected lifespan by six years, thus extending the contract with Swedish Space Corporation to control the satellite for an additional year.
Full Story
Learning Aerospace Skills This year students can still be pioneers of Allan Hancock College’s “Mechatronics” program that debuted last semester with great success.
Full Story
Stability Is KVH Offering With Optic Gyro KVH Industries, Inc. now offers a variant of their precision DSP-3000 fiber optic gyro (FOG) with an RS-422 output. This allows the device to operate in a wider range of applications.
Full Story
SWE-DISH Suitcases Are Packed for Romania SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has turned an order around in a speedy manner to keep their Eastern European partner, ADISAM Telecom S.A., very happy.
Full Story
ULA Gathers In Another Launch Award Boeing and Lockheed Martin formed a joint venture called United Launch Alliance in 2006, which was a rather fortuitous and sensible move, given their project simpatico. ULA has now been awarded a $505.3 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide rocket launch services for three National Reconnaissance Office satellites.
Full Story
China To Send New Satellite Aloft The Fengyun-3 polar orbit meteorological satellite will be launched by China in May, according to a report in the China News Service's online news site.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World... — Digidesign — Harris Corporation + Kuwait Television — Maximum Throughput + Bitcentral — OmniBus Systems + NRK — Omneon + Pro-Bel — Panasonic + TF1 — SkyPatrol — SIRIUS Satellite Radio — BBC3 — CBS + Last.fm — Writer's Strike —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs UPS Has Louisville Ops Flying High With ADS-B Technologies - Internet Soars With SouthWest Airlines - Furtherance Of Democracy At Root Of New Pakistani Satellite LIcenses
Full Story
January 22, 2008 Airtel Invites Telecoms To Their Turf Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s leading integrated telecom conglomerate, has launched their ‘India with Airtel’.
Full Story
WMO's GOS Gets Going Many of the world’s space and meteorological agencies have given their support to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) strategy for the enhanced use of satellites to monitor climate change and weather.
Full Story
L-3 Latches On To More Navy Work A $13.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy has been awarded to L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.
Full Story
IDC Getting Smarter Stuff From Irdeto International Datacasting Corporation [TSX:IDC] has entered into an agreement to license Irdeto's Cyphercast IP encryption technology.
Full Story
Almost The Last GPS Sat Flown To Launch Site Last Thursday, the second to last Global Positioning System block IIR-M satellites to be launched arrived at Cape Canaveral AFS. GPS satellite IIR-M20 is one of two currently being processed for launch by the 45th Launch Support Squadron.
Full Story
Two NPO PM Sat Activities Nearing Completion The satellite Express-AM33 has now been prepared for transfer to the launch complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome by the Reshetnev Association of Applied Mechanics (NPO PM) Team. Plus, NPO PM created the Ybileiny satellite last year and the plan is to orbit the vehicle with a cluster of three satellites built under the company's contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World — EffectiveUI + AlwaysOn — Electronic Arts + Dice — Electronic Arts + Auto Desk — NAD Electronics — RCN Corporation — Roxio — Scopus Video Networks — Apple + Wall Street — Mvix —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs ISRO Extends An Imaging Hand To SAARC - WTA Presents Their Service of the Month: SatLink Communications - Hughes Offers Food For Thought... And Processing
Full Story
January 21, 2008 Astrium Probing For ESA BepiColombo is a Mercury probe that is going to be built by Astrium for the European Space Agency (ESA). The main industrial contract worth 350.9 million euros for this mission to our solar system's innermost planet was signed today by representatives of ESA and Astrium.
Full Story
Newtec Connects With SES ASTRA Newtec now possesses a large-scale production contract with SES ASTRA for that company's satellite broadband solution, ASTRA2Connect
Full Story
MSV Is A Legacy + NexGen Believer Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has announced plans to extend its current generation network voice and mobile data services through 2011 on its next generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated to be launched in 2010.
Full Story
TTTech's Time Trigger Technology Most Acceptable For Honeywell TTTech supplies solutions in the field of time-triggered technologies. The company has released a new, scalable, real-time Ethernet platform for control systems that's deployable for a variety of business applications.
Full Story
Gilat Satellite Networks Puts Remote India in the Know Now remote citizens in the state of Gujarat, India, will receive information, communications and e-governance services with the help of more than 13,000 SkyEdge IP VSATS.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR)] will release financial results for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2007, on January 24, 2008 after the close of the market.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World... — Avocent — HaiVision Systems — Panasonic PBITS — RevenueDirect — Ross Video — Telescope — HBO — iRiver Japan — Nintendo Wii — Panasonic — Slide — Yahoo —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Harris Helps Habitat For Humanity In New Orleans - SGI Packin' Pure Power For FENGYUN-3 Processes - Paper Plane Targeted From ISS?
Full Story
January 20, 2008 EADS Astrium Kaptures KA-SAT This company's first satellite operating exclusively in Ka-band frequencies will definitely expand capacity for consumer broadband services across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Eutelsat Communications has selected EADS Astrium to deliver this satellite which currently possesses the name of KA-SAT.
Full Story
Israeli SpySat Settles In... Designed and developed by MBT Space, which is a division of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the new Israeli Tecsar satellite was boosted into space today via the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Polar Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Full Story
Israel Sets March For Country's Anniversary ComSat Launch To be manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is the next comsat for Israel which will be launched to coincide with Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations.
Full Story
digiGO!—The Digital World —Jackson Bites — Reallusion — NFL + Sky Angel U.S. — The NPD Group x2 — Sony's ACIDplanet — Yahoo, T-Mobile — YouTube — DirecTV, DISH — digiBITZ (China, NBC, Yahoo, NBA + Turner Sports) —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Price Increases—Gas For The Car, Or, I Want My satTV??
Full Story
January 19, 2008 Adieu, TacSat-2 Launched on December 16th, 2006, from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, the TacSat-2 microsatellite's operations have been terminated by the U.S. Air Force.
Full Story
Phase A Initiation For Integral Via Northrop Nod Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ: ISYS] has received from Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE: NOC] a Phase A contract to start development of the
GPS OCX (Next Generation Control Segment) satellite command and control system. The total contract value is approximately US$20.6m with a period of performance through March 2009.
Full Story
January 17, 2008 PTC '08—SatNews Publishers Shares His Thoughts, His Swing & His Poopoos Hawaii, Oahua, PTC '08—what could be a better locale for a conference? According to SatNews Publisher Silvano Payne, not much... From January 13th through the 16th, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, PTC '08 presented their 30th Anniversary Conference—TELECOM WITH A VISION.
Full Story
SSTL Pumps Up Students With Awesome Sat Creation Contest British space engineering company Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) are challenging teams of 14-18 year olds to fly a lunch-box-sized experiment on a future space mission, supported by expert scientists and engineers.
Full Story
Pictorial Message From NASA's MESSENGER On January 14th, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft completed its closest approach to Mercury. Photos were taken of the planet's sunlit portion that had not previously been viewed by other spacecraft.
Full Story
Advent's FlyDrive & Exciter To Attend CabSat 2008 CabSat 2008, which occurs from March 4th through 6th in Dubai, is going to host a number of satcom firms. One is Advent, and that company is going to be displaying their new, compact 5000 series electronics package as well as FlyDrive antenna.
Full Story
Evolutionary Duo From Paradise Datacom Paradise Datacom has intro'd two new members of their Evolution Series of satellite modems.
Full Story
digiGO!—The Digital World — SPOTLIGHT Featurette: Vizrt + Reality Check Studios — ABI Research — Dalet Digital Media Systems + The Press Association — EGT + WeiTel — Global Digital Technologies + Xilinx — Harris Corporation — Star Choice — Streambox — UDcast —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Financially Speaking... Star Choice satTV - GPS + GNSS Will Lead To Amazing Growth, Says ABI - Globecomm Garners Honduran Connection
Full Story
January 16, 2008 Yahsat 1A Going For SatCom Duties In 2010 Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, has signed a letter of intent with Arianespace to launch the Yahsat 1A communications satellite.
Full Story
NASA's LCROSS To Moon Crash—On Purpose The validation tests have been completed on the cameras and sensors that will be used to hunt for water presence on the Moon and these crucial elements have now been shipped to the Northrop Grumman Corporation's facility in Redondo Beach, California, for integration into the LCROSS satellite.
Full Story
Bell Canada Rings In New SatReceiver Bell Canada has their nexgen 6141 High Definition (HD) satellite receiver available.
Full Story
SatSim Family Expanded By Tampa Microwave Tampa Microwave has made available three additional models to their satellite simulator product family. The new products include a Quad Band satsim, a single Ku-Band satsim and a single Ka-Band satsim.
Full Story
WEGENER Receiver Technique Receives Patent WEGENER Corporation [NASDAQ:WGNR] has been granted a U.S. patent for an innovative, cost-effective technique that's designed to improve the operation of standard definition satellite media receivers.
Full Story
DVB-SH Mobile TV Trials Involvements DiBcom, TeamCast and UDcast, three global providers of technologies for the broadcast and reception of Digital Terrestrial Television and Mobile TV, are all contributing actively at the core of the DVB-SH ecosystem to meet the high performance requirements for the satellite and terrestrial broadcast segments.
Full Story
Speedy SatFolk @ Lockheed Martin and Air Force Space Command The modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on December 20th, 2007, has been declared fully operational. This follows a record-setting on-orbit deployment by the joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team.
Full Story
SatNet Goes With The BANDIT Encore Networks announced Mobil Satellite Technologies has selected their BANDIT line of environmentally hardened VPN routers for their satellite network solutions aimed at the public utilities market.
Full Story
Harris Communicating Extremely Well With Falcons Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] has received several new orders for its Falcon family of radios, with the orders worth US$158M.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World... — Aruba Networks + M6 Group — Bell Canada — DiBcom + TeamCast + UDcast — Elgato Systems — Group One Ltd. + DiGiCo — Harris Corporation's Broadcast Communications — Narrowstep + Fox International — On2 Technologies — Samsung + JVC — Anthony Zuiker + NAB —
Full Story
January 15, 2008 Thuraya-3 SatSuccess As Sea Launch Sends Boeing Craft Heavenwards The third Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company Geo-mobile satellite has successfully been launched by Sea Launch with a perfect flight of the Zenit-3S vehicle.
Full Story
Harris Garners U.S.A.F. Space Wing's Confidence Now contracted to provide ops and maintenance support to the U.S.A.F.'s 50th Space Wing's Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) at various global locations is Harris Corporation.
Full Story
Feature Flicks & Sports From Space, Via Microspace Microspace Communications Corporation is a distributor of digital cinema via satellite and the company has successfully delivered 11 feature films from five studios and grew its network to 1,000 screens, with more than a dozen participating theater circuits within the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Integral Systems Integral Systems, Inc., [NASDAQ-ISYS] will release the results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2008 via PR Newswire on Monday, February 4, 2008, before the market opens.
Full Story
Anonymous Military Benefactor For SkyPort Global The always-present, anonymous U.S. government prime contractor has now offered a one year contract to SkyPort Global Communications for US$1M to provide communications support for the "war on terror".
Full Story
Temex Has A SAW Upgrade Solution Temex designs and manufactures frequency solutions for the defense and space industries. The company has just launched a new digital pulse compression sub-system (DPCSS) with chirp generator (transmitter) and compressor (receiver) modules at intermediate frequency (IF): the CI BM7xx.
Full Story
More Than Chocolates For Eutelsat From Switzerland Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] has a major contract for its new
Tooway satellite broadband Ka-band service with Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading
telecommunications company.
Full Story
iDirect Going Great—Guatemala iDirect, Inc. has announced that Teléfonos del Norte has selected its satellite communications platform as the standard for a new high-speed, cost effective broadband service for consumers and businesses across Central America.
Full Story
Distribution Agreements Continue To Abound For SES ASTRA SES ASTRA, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], has signed additional contracts to roll-out its satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect also into France and Italy.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The Digital World... — Apple + Macworld Intros — Google + FCC — Microspace Communications Corp. — MovieTech AG — New Tech Infosystems — TV One Europe — digiBITZ (Toshiba—EC + Microsoft—MySpace—Facebook + Plaxo—Fujitsu + Hitachi + Toshiba—Microsoft again)
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Super Auction Adds In Google - Five GLONASS Sats Go Bye-Bye
Full Story
January 14, 2008 Telenor Competition To Award NOK 250k The start of a Telenor competition to find the Nordic region's most innovative product or service with the greatest potential, whether it be TV, Internet or mobile based, has now started.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Mubadala Trade Arabia's online business news information is reporting 10 banks have been invited to submit financing proposals for a $1.4 billion satellite, the requests coming from Mubadala Development Company in Abu Dhabi.
Full Story
Saft's SatPower The Horizons-2 GEO satellite that launched on December 21st aboard an Ariane 5 GS launch vehicle from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana is being powered by technology provided by Saft lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Full Story
Saft's SatPower The Horizons-2 GEO satellite that launched on December 21st aboard an Ariane 5 GS launch vehicle from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana is being powered by technology provided by Saft lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Full Story
NASA Launch Date For European Lab Now Set As the Russian Space Agency has moved their Progress launch from February 7th to February 5th, NASA has decided February 7th will now be the target launch date for the Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission.
Full Story
Combo ESA + ISRO Moon Mission Meeting Deadlines Scheduled to launch in April is Chandrayaan-1, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Indian Space Research Organization's first collaborative space mission. The launch will occur from Sriharikota, India, and the satellite will be aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Full Story
ATK Arrays Itself With Orion Alliant Techsystems [NYSE: ATK] has been selected by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to design, develop and build UltraFlex solar arrays for NASA's nexgen Orion crew exploration vehicle.
Full Story
In Dubai and Scotland, GVF Ramps Up Events There are two upcoming events you should be aware of... the first is the GVF MENASAT (Middle East & North Africa Satellite Summit) at CABSAT 2008, "Growing the Broadband Networking Environment & the MENA Satellite Dynamic.
Full Story
atContact With ViaSat A cooperative venture between atContact Communications and ViaSat will result in providing consumer broadband access services in the US and portions of Canada.
Full Story
NATO Nod To Globecomm Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] provides end-to-end, value-added satellite-based communication products, services and solutions by leveraging its core satellite ground segment systems and network capabilities, with its satellite communication services capabilities.
Full Story
ORBIT Brings OrSat To Market ORBIT has debuted their dual offset Gregorian 1.15m (45-inches) OrSat AL-7103 MKII Ku-band antenna.
Full Story
Boeing & ProtoStar Cement ComSat Deal The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] now has a contract to build a commercial satellite for ProtoStar Ltd.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of digiBIZ — Netflix, Blockbuster, Apple — Entropic Communications — Gefen — Imagine Communications — Linear Acoustic — NewTech Infosystems — Scopus Video Networks — Telenor —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Thumbs Down By Justice Department On SatRadio Merger? - Azerbaijan Pushes For Satellite - Galileo Financing Controversies Continue... - Tampa Microwave Getting In Good With The GSA
Full Story
January 13, 2008 iDirect Brings Expansion To Australian SatCom Firm iDirect, Inc., a VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) company, has announced that Australian Satellite Communications will install an iDirect 5IF satellite hub on the US west coast to expand its services in the Asia Pacific market.
Full Story
Thor 2R To Thunder Aloft Next Month The Thor 2R satellite, designed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for the Norwegian telecom firm, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, will be launched on February 10th from Kazakhstan as part of Khrunichev's commercial launch program.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of DigiBIZ — Gibson Guitar — Harris Corporation — New Media Expo — Seagate Technologies — Tiffen — TV One — Wacom — digiBITZ (Apple, Coby Electronics, Corus Entertainment, CBS, Writers Guild of America, Blue-ray, Warner Bros.)
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs ISRO Targets The Sun - Financially Speaking... COM DEV International - Shin Sales To Soar Upwards - NASA Views Mercury Today, Up Close & Personal - Arirang 1 Farewell Possible - Globecomm To Handle Honduran Telecom
Full Story
January 12, 2008 Thuraya-3 Countdown Confirmed The Sea Launch team has arrived at its launch site on the equator and has initiated a new 72-hour countdown.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Boeing Here's a title worthy of an executive team member — Vice President, State and Local Government Relations and Global Corporate Citizenship for the Northwest region. And this is the moniker to which Frederick C. Kiga will be attached when he reports to Tod Hullin...
Full Story
Moving On Up... At GeoEye, Inc. There's a new member of the Board of Directors for GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ:GEOY]—he's Michael F. Horn, Senior, and he will become the ninth such director.
Full Story
Express Delivery For Express Satellite On January 2nd, Reshetnev NPO PM accomplished pre-delivery of their Express-AM33 satellite for delivery to the launch site at Baikonur on 3 January.
Full Story
Arianespace Fuel For Flight Underway Fueling for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has been started for Ariane 5's first human-rated spacecraft, which is being performed in the S5B fueling hall of the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation building.
Full Story
ESA Truckin' To Santa Maria For Trackin' The European Space Agency's ESTRACK network is going to grow from eight to nine stations, as on January 17th, the agency will formally inaugurate their newest station that's located on the Portuguese island of Santa Maria in the Azores.
Full Story
Joining Forces... C2SAST & DRS Technologies C2SAT [NGM Stock Market Exchange, C2ST] provides advanced shipboard stabilized satellite communications terminals. The company has just entered into a technology licensing agreement with DRS Technologies, Inc. [NYSE: DRS], to market and sell C2SAT’s shipboard stabilized Ku-band terminals to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies.
Full Story
January 10, 2008 New Tadiran Milcom Radio Packs A Multimedia Punch There's a new member of the Tadiran Communication's tactical radio family, the CNR-900M HDR. For more than 40 years, Tadiran has been engaged in milcom, and this latest version offers high speed, 115 Kbps datacom capabilities on 25 kHz-spaced tactical VHF/FM channels.
Full Story
Moving On Up... And Moving On Out... At Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings The new Vice President of Marketing at Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings, the operator of XM Canada, is Janet Gillespie.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At EchoStar Joining EchoStar Holding Corporation [NASDAQ:SATS] as the company's President of Satellite Services is Dean Olmstead.
Full Story
LRO Prep Work For NASA's Lunar Leap Continues At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is smack dab in the middle of integration and testing processes.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of DigiBIZ — Arc Chart — Agilent Technologies — Canadian Satellite Holdings — Best Buy + Apple — Eye-Fi + Lexar Media — Omneon + Cognacq-Jay Image — Polaroid — Tonium Laboratories — TV of Tomorrow Show —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Loan For SkyPort Growth - PBLSat Beaming With Capacity - IDC Goes International With SatReceivers
Full Story
January 9, 2008 Harmonic Has Sat Distribution Set Harmonic Inc. has a new agreement with Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) for the deployment of the former's DiviCom MV 500 high definition and MV 100 standard definition encoders as well as for DiviTrack statistical multiplexing for its MPEG-2 satellite program distribution.
Full Story
ICSSC + ICSSC Want You To Be Explicitly Abstract The 26th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) wishes to remind all SatNews readers there is still time to submit an abstract for this event.
Full Story
IPSTAR Receives C-COM C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [TSX VENTURE:CMI] has now finished the integration of their iNetVu mobile antenna systems with Shin Satellite's IPSTAR broadband satellite, which happens to be Asia's largest satbroadband system.
Full Story
WEGENER iPumps New Biz With Telesat Telesat, a global satellite provider, is going to launch non-linear programming services in Canada and the company has selected WEGENER equipment to compliment their existing video distribution net.
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Intelsat, Ltd. Intelsat, Ltd. has announced, at the request of the new investors referred to below, that Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd. intends to redeem all of its outstanding $260 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2013 (the “2013 Notes”) and $600 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes” and, together with the 2013 Notes, the “Notes”).
Full Story
Joining Together: Lockheed Martin and United Space Alliance A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Lockheed Martin and United Space Alliance has been signed by the firms to support the former's pursuit of the Facilities Development and Operations Contract (FDOC) at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Full Story
SNC Gloms Onto NanoSat Folk Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has acquired MicroSat Systems, Inc. in Littleton, Colorado, making MicroSat Systems a wholly owned subsidiary. MicroSat Systems is a leader in the small satellite market and has developed a line of spacecraft products that has the potential to be a disruptive technology.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of DigiBIZ — DivX + Jaman.com — Entropic Communications + Oxford Semiconductor — Gateway — Harmonic + Trinity Broadcasting — Linear Acoustic — NewTech Infosystems — Samsung Electronics —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs NASA Bursts Into The News - AsiaSat Beams With Urban Culture
Full Story
January 8, 2008 Thales To Push Sat To New Perigee Thales Alenia Space has announced a new step in the RASCOM-QAF1’s Launch Early Operation Procedures to further technical investigations and in agreement with the customer RASCOMSTAR-QAF.
Full Story
ATCi Monitors The World Able to monitor satellite carriers in real-time from a central location is the new Warrior Satellite Monitoring System from Antenna Technology Communications, Inc. (ACTi).
Full Story
Chile Time For A Satellite By the close of Q1 this year, there could well be a manufacturer selected for a new Chilean satellite.
Full Story
The Boeing and Lockheed Martin TSAT Bounce A contract extension for US$75M has been awarded to Boeing Satellite Systems and to Lockheed Martin as a modification of their original Transformational Communication Satellite (TSAT) Space Segment Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) contracts.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At SAT-GE The new Vice President of Engineering at SAT-GE is Vince Walisko and he'll be responsible for all aspects of engineering and sales engineering for the firm, including satellite configuration, payload management, strategic supplier liaison and operations.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At AMERICOM Government Services An independent corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of SES AMERICOM, AMERICOM Government Services has named Timothy L. Deaver has the firm's new Director of Air Force Programs.
Full Story
Alliant Techsystems' Powerful Acquisition of MDA In an acquisition valued at more than US$1.3B, U.S. defense contractor Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is purchasing the Information Systems and Geospatial Information Services businesses of Canadian space and satellite company Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd (MDA).
Full Story
Launching Success Is ILS New launch orders received by International Launch Services (ILS) during 2007 totaled US$1.5B, quite a feat for the firm's first year as an independent company marketing the Proton Breeze M vehicle.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of digiBIZ — Bluetooth — Entropic Communications + DIRECTV — New Century Productions + Calrec Audio — Panasonic — Parks Associates — Stewart Filmscreen + Joe Kane — Synterra Media + Genesis Networks — Verimatrix + RealPage + Hargray Communications —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs Radio Growth Expected Says Parks Associates—Sat & HD, That Is
Full Story
January 7, 2008 Sacramento Tech Summit Is Star Struck The first annual Reaching the Stars career technical education summit will be held on January 15th at the Sacramento Convention Center in Sacramento, California, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., with a reception to follow.
Full Story
Harris' TOP SECRET Certification For Manpack Offering a 30 MHz to 2 GHz freq range, a SCA-operating environment, significant processing power, plus the ability to accommodate new waveforms for networking, TACSAT, commercial L-band satellite and public safety interoperability, all describe the features of the Harris Corporation Falcon III multiband, multimission manpack radio.
Full Story
Eutelsat To Satisfy With KA-SAT Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] has selected EADS Astrium to deliver its first satellite operating exclusively in Ka-band frequencies. The satellite will form the cornerstone of a major new satellite infrastructure program that will expand capacity for consumer broadband services across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, while providing new opportunities for local and regional television markets.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Iridium Satellite John S. Brunette is Iridium Satellite's new Chief Legal and Administrative office. He replaces Michael Deutschman, who retired last month.
Full Story
SS/L Gains ViaSat Victory Loral Space & Communications [NASDAQ:LORL] has announced that its subsidiary, Space Systems/Loral, was selected to provide a high capacity broadband satellite for ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT].
Full Story
Financially Speaking... Mobile Satellite Ventures Mobile Satellite Ventures and SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (“SkyTerra”) have closed on the previously announced definitive agreement to sell to Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd...
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Northrop Grumman Joseph J. Ensor has bee newly named by Northrop Grumman Corporation as the Vice President and General Manager of the company's newly formed Space & ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) Systems Division, which is within the firm's Electronic Systems sector.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of digiBIZ — iTunes & Competition — EchoStar Communications — Games for Windows — Oopen Mobile Video Coalition + Harris Corp. + LG Electronics + Samsung Electronics + Rohde & Schwarz + SES AMERICOM — Westinghouse Digital Electronics —
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs DISHing Out Lower Pricing - Hughes Hugs Dow Electronics For SE Sales - Delphi To Work On WORLDSPACE Ref Design Receivers
Full Story
January 6, 2008 Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Hughes + Helius Hughes Communications, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Helius, Inc., a portfolio company of Canopy Ventures. The acquisition is expected to be completed on or about February 4, 2008.
Full Story
Israeli SARsat Launch Could Occur This Quarter According to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the often delayed launch of a Israeli spy satellite, TechSAR, could actually occur during the first quarter of this new year.
Full Story
NASA Pushes Atlantis Launch Out NASA flight control teams and ground operations teams have been requested to protect for a January 24th launch date for Space Shuttle Atlantis. As work progresses, that date will be modified as required, says John Shannon, deputy manager for the Space Shuttle Program.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of digiBIZ — 4HomeMedia — Axia — CyberLink Corp. — DSP Group, Inc. — DXG USA — eMedia Music Corp. — Logitech — Liquid Image — Microsoft — Nintendo — Pinnacle Systems — shinywitebox — Sony — Widevine Technologies — XM Satellite Radio —
Full Story
NOAA To Get GPS Act Together Over the next four years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is going to become the Analysis Center Coordinator for the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Service—this is a voluntary federation of 200+ organizations providing continuous, global satellite-tracking data.
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs These Are Not Birthday Balloons Flying in Antarctica - Where, Oh Where, Has Arirang 1 Gone? - Sirius Is Serious About Customer Sugar—Sweet!
Full Story
January 5, 2008 Sundance Signals New App Just released by Sundance is a new version of their SMT370, reengineered into an industrial variant, offering a high-quality and tightly integrated analog interface for digital signaling apps.
Full Story
January 3, 2008 Vinasat To Vanquish Space For Vietnam Appears as though March of this year is the timeframe for the launch of Vinasat, the first satcom for Vietnam, with expectations for full operation during Q2.
Full Story
Gaining Additional SatCom Ground Is Globecomm Satellite, data, voice and microwave services are the elements of a new contract for Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ:GCOM] from a major U.S. Government prime contractor who remains unnamed.
Full Story
Iridium's Polarization Of Transoceanic Flights Iridium Satellite is now going to be able to provide Aeronautical Mobile Satellite (Route) Services (AMS(R)S) for commercial aircraft on transoceanic flights.
Full Story
Broadcom SoC For SSTB There's a new Broadcom satellite system-on-a-chip (SoC) that allows manufacturers to develop low cost, satellite set-top boxes (STBs) with personal video recorder (PVR) functionality. Plus, the chip offers multi-format, HD functionality.
Full Story
Check Out Thales Communications And Their Poster Thales Communications, which provides vital communication and optronics capabilities to warfighters on the battlefield and with embedded communication systems for tactical vehicles, UAVs, and Navy and Coast Guard ships, will be exhibiting at the Surface Navy Association National Symposium on January 15-17 at Arlington, Virginia at booth 722.
Full Story
MDA Continues Robotic Efforts With NASA A contract worth CAD$39.5M has been received by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. [TSX:MDA] to continue their support to NASA's Johnson Space Center for robotic elements.
Full Story
Comtech Telecommunications Wracks Up New U.S. Army Orders Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ:CMTL] announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, has received orders totaling US$17.7M under the firm's IDIQ contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM).
Full Story
ORBITS: News Briefs... — Chile Set To Spend Millions On SatSystem — EchoStar Morphs — Bi-SatNav System Sells Out — Shin Has Terminal Sales — Telenor Cruising With New Contract — CEO's Funds Facilitate WorldSpace Plans —
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of digiBIZ — NewerTech & iPhone — SysMedia — WorldSpace —
Full Story
January 2, 2008 Galileo Celebrates Milestone The first of Europe’s satellite navigation program, the Galileo, is celebrating two years of successful in-orbit operation. GIOVE-A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element) secured a vital Galileo frequency filing with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and supported the development of technology critical to Galileo’s future.
Full Story
Major Sierra Storm Could Halt SatNews Daily and Weekly Info Deliveries... We are most fortunate in having our editorial offices located in the norther high Sierra mountains, near Lake Tahoe, in northern California. Such means we are also at the mercy of nature, with forest fires in the summer months and blizzards during the winter months.
Full Story
digiGO!™—The World of DigitalBIZ — ABI Research — Akami Technologies — Paul Allen & Vulcan Spectrum LLC — Amimon — AMAZON.COM — America Online & QUIGO — Applie iTunes Store, Canada — Consumer Electronics Association — CDNetworks — Ciprico — eMedia Music Corp. — GameTap & TransGaming — Gefen — Google, DoubleClick & Hyperphrase Technologies — Ibiquity Digital Corp. — Viacom & Microsoft — Miranda Technologies — Moviebeam — MySpace & Skype — Industrial Computing — LG.Philips LCD Co. — NTV Games & Jerry Bruckheimer — Samsung Electronics — Simmons — Interactive Peripherals — Sony — THQ Inc. — Sierra Entertainment — Wal-Mart — XM Satellite Radio & Warner Music Group — Zacom —
Full Story
Here's what occurred while SatNews was away for the holidays! — Aerospace Industries Assocation — Astrium — Boeing Satellite Systems — China — CommScope & Andrew Corporation — GeoEye Inc. — Vivo & Telefonica Group — Intelsat & JSAT International — LIRNEasia & WorldSapce — Military & Aerosapce Electronics Forum — Miteq — NASA — NAVSTAR — Thales Alenia Space — Rockwell Collins & ARINC Inc. — Russia — Shemaroo Entertainment & Zee TV — SkyTerra Communications, Inmarsat, Mobile Satellite Ventures — Thuraya — Vinasat-1 — Turkey —
Full Story
Thuraya-3 At Sea With Launch Date Set The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the rescheduled Thuraya-3 mission. Liftoff is now planned for January 15, in a 44-minute launch window that opens at 3:49 am Pacific Standard Time (11:49 GMT).
Full Story
Thuraya-3 At Sea With Launch Date Set The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the rescheduled Thuraya-3 mission.
Full Story
Moving On Up... At Norsat International Eugene G. Syho has been appointed Chief Financial Officer for Norsat International, Inc., a company that designs, engineers and markets intelligent satellite solutions for high-speed data transmission.
Full Story
SpaceDev's Spacecraft Development The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) of Hawaii has awarded a contract to SpaceDev, Inc., to initiate requirements definition and the preliminary design of their astrophysics and communications payload.
Full Story
January 1, 2008 ABI Looks At The Wireless World Of 4G Royalties ABI Research has delved into the WiMAX community, learning that WiMAX folk believe their technology will arrive with a far lower average royalty rate than either LTE or UMB—they've effectively, and so they phrase, have "democratized" the 4G (4thgen wireless) space.
Full Story
