Satellite News

U.S. Air Force officials have delayed the launch of Tactical Satellite-3 until repairs to a spacecraft avionics component, critical to the system’s operational capability, are complete.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected to design, manufacture and test a new commercial communications spacecraft known as New Dawn.
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The U.S. Defense Department has used two mysterious microsatellites to inspect its failed DSP 23 early warning satellite, Spaceflight Now reports. The manoeuvre remains mysterious, though, and might be little more than a covert public relations operation.
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GeoEye, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite.
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Eutelsat Communications and SpeedCast announced a major commercial agreement with FURUNO, one of the leading companies in the maritime equipment and service sectors.
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SES New Skies said it will host IPTV Americas on its NSS-806 satellite. This will enable IPTV Americas to offer an end-to-end satellite-delivered IPTV distribution solution to all telecommunications and cable operators’ head ends in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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EchoStar Corporation and its EchoStar Satellite Services division announced an agreement with Vredes, Inc., to provide satellite services for emergency management and other remote location broadcast demands.
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