Satellite News

BSkyB added 389,000 subscribers in its 2006 financial year to close with 8.2 million subscribers, the U.K. pay-TV provider announced July 28. The company’s revenues improved 8 percent to 4.1 billion British pounds ($7.6 billion), while…

The South African government has approved the establishment of the South African Space Agency, Government Communications said in a statement.

Eutelsat’s Hotbird 8 broadcast satellite is being prepared in Baikonur for an ILS Proton Briz M launch scheduled for 4 August at 2148 UTC. Based on EADS Space’s Eurostar E3000, Hotbird 8 is the most powerful satellite ever ordered to serve Europe.

The failed Dnepr rocket launched on 26 July has been found in an uninhabitated area 150 kilometers off the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

NASA announced the award of launch services for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services.

Rocket: Rokot; Payload: KOMPSAT-2 [Arirang-2]; Date: 28 July 2006, 0705 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The launch vehicle deployed the Earth observation satellite of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) into a Sun-synchronous orbit of 685 km altitude.

NASA awarded four companies a 90-day study contact to examine long-term ground processing and infrastructure planning for the agency’s Constellation Program…

Euro-World signed a deal with Home2US, to deliver Croatian radio and TV shows to throughout the United States. Home2US operates an open-pay TV platform using C- and Ku-band…