Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite to prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman announced. The Lockheed…

ICO Global Communications Ltd. (ICO) has been granted milestone extensions for the construction and launch of its ICO G1 satellite, the company announced Feb. 5. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the company’s request to extend the dates outlined in ICO’s authorization for…

The Swedish-led Prisma satellite system has successfully passed a critical design review (CDR). The CDR was hosted at Swedish Space Corp. (SSC)’s Engineering Center in Stockholm and included SSC engineers and other experts. With design…

Worldspace Satellite Radio, a global satellite-based digital radio services provider, has licensed Certicom’s conditional access system to secure its satellite digital radio…

Globecomm Systems Inc. reported recorded revenues of $36.7 million in its 2007 second quarter, up from $29.9 million in the same period a year ago, the company announced Feb. 7. Net income jumped from $900,000 a year ago to $1.8 million in the most…

DirecTV Group Inc. posted a profit of $1.4 billion on revenues of $14.8 billion, the company announced Feb. 7. In 2005, DirecTV attributed the revenue gains to subscriber growth at DirecTV U.S. and DirecTV Latin America as well as continued growth in average revenue per user (ARPU) at DirecTV U.S., and the…

Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,174,127 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The ‘127 patent is the eighteenth patent to issue to MSV relating to the company’s satellite- terrestrial hybrid system including Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology.

The DirecTV Group, Inc. announced financial results for 2006.