Satellite News

Emerging from the elation of a first-rank performance in the Space Shuttle Discovery mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA now faces a sobering series of challenges extending over four years. The Discovery mission, STS-121, suffered little of the foam insulation loss from its external fuel…

With a population of more than 1 billion people, India has been targeted as one of the largest potential markets for satellite services, but the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) efforts to play a key role in developing the market have been thrown into chaos after the failed launch of the Insat-4C…

Scientists using data provided by a European radar satellite say the recent tear in the Earth’s continental crust near the Red Sea in Africa’s Afar desert could isolate Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa and could eventually form a new ocean. In September 2005, the Earth split apart along a…

Eutelsat Communications full-year results have been greeted positively by the analyst community, as the operator announced that revenues for the year ending June 30 were 791.1 million euros ($1 billion), an increase of nearly 5.5 percent over the previous year. In terms of video applications, full year…

Stratos Global Corp. already holds more than $100 million in U.S. government contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House Communications Agency, among others. This is up from a paltry $400,000 of contracts in 1998. But Stratos wants more and has launched a new…

While still assessing the fallout from the July launch failure that destroyed the Insat-4C communications satellite, Madhaven Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation…

Planetlink Communications Inc. will supply another shipment of GPS Fleet Tracking Systems to R&R Sales Group, Planetlink announced July 27. This second order is for 26 units, bringing the total number of…

Eurockot Launch Services GmbH launched the Korean Kompsat-2 satellite July 28 from Plesetsk…