Satellite News

SES Astra named its new digital satellite infrastructure in Europe Entavio, the company announced Aug. 31…

Iridium Satellite and Raytheon’s JPS Communications have announced a joint marketing initiative to provide first responders a fully interoperable communications service for use in disaster recovery…

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Aug. 29 that its Germantown, Md.-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received orders valued at $4.3 million under its Movement Tracking System…

L-3 Communications announced that its Telemetry-West division won a $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide next-generation encryption services for satellite telemetry…

Intelsat secured rights through the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency to offer communications services throughout Brazil, Intelsat announced Aug. 31…

Loral Skynet teamed with Global Crossing, a provider of terrestrial-based telecommunications services, to extend the communications network of the British Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to its most remote island community, Tristan da Cunha, Loral…

EADS and ISRO have reviewed the progress of the contracts they had signed to provide communication satellites for the international market.

South Korea’s recently launched Arirang 2 multipurpose satellite has sent its first photograph, proving that it is working properly to monitor any signs of geographical changes on the Korean Peninsula, government officials said.