Satellite News

Rocket: Zenit 3SL/Block DM-SL; Payload: Koreasat 5 (Mugunghwa 5); Date: 22 August 2006, 0327 UTC; Launch Site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West Longitude in the Pacific Ocean. The rocket delivered the hybrid military and civilian communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).

The Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems Bofors’ Excalibur team successfully test-fired two global positioning system (GPS)-guided 155 mm artillery projectiles that functioned as intended against simulated tactical targets Aug. 10. The program is a…

Trimble announced Aug. 17 it has supplied Global Positioning System (GPS) reference stations and VRS (Virtual Reference Station) software to establish one of the first Eastern Europe nationwide VRS infrastructure networks…

Gilat Satellite Networks has high hopes for its Spacenet subsidiary over the next 12 months. Gilat recently appointed former SES Americom Chief Commercial Officer Andreas Georghiou as the new CEO of Spacenet. Spacenet is a provider of managed network solutions by satellite and terrestrial connectivity for…

Belarus is set to announce a tender for a new national BelKa satellite to replace the one destroyed…

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a decision by a lower court that Echostar Communications Corp. to stop selling digital video recorders (DVR), the company announced Aug. 18. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked an injunction issued Thursday by a U.S…

SES Americom announced that Comcast, Bresnan Communications, Brighthouse Networks, and Metrocast are among the first group of domestic U.S. cable MSOs to participate in a triple-feed antenna programme, offering access to the next generation of HD channels.

The second of four pairs of massive solar arrays and a Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, will be launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) as early as 27 August 2006.