Satellite News

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Aug. 21 that its Tempe, Ariz.-based subsidiary, Comtech…

SES Americom announced Aug. 21 that Comcast, Bresnan Communications, Brighthouse Networks, and Metrocast are among the first U.S.-based…

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. received several orders from an unnamed U.S. government agency to provide Radarsat-1 products…

Boeing Co. demonstrated space-based delivery of MP-3 files, a streaming video multicast and Voice over Internet protocol (IP) services in a test of the company’s approach for the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSat) program, Boeing announced Aug. 22. A series of live tests were…

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Aug. 22 that the Optus D1 communications satellite has been delivered to Kourou, French Guiana, where it is…

Sea Launch placed the Koreasat 5 communications satellite into orbit Aug. 21 for KT Corp. and South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development…

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced the on-schedule delivery of the NextSat Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC) to Boeing’s Orbital Express (OE) programme for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

NASA announced that its new crew exploration vehicle, until now known as CEV, will be named Orion.