Satellite News

Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali (RRD) has selected Intelsat to support the first commercially available digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV service in Europe. In a Sept. 8 statement by Intelsat, the company will complement 3 Italia’s WalkTV service, which launched in June and has attracted…

Daniel Goldberg has been named president and CEO of Telesat Canada, Canada’s largest satellite services provider, the company announced Sept. 11. Goldberg — formerly president and CEO of SES New Skies — succeeds Larry Boisvert, who is…

Telesat Canada and its shareholder BCE Inc. announced that Daniel S. Goldberg has been named president and CEO of the Canadian satellite services provider.

Intelsat, Telespazio and Hughes Network Systems Europe (Hughes Europe) announced they are co-operating in the launch of a new satellite broadband service platform to provide high-quality broadband IP connectivity, primarily serving Italian corporations with locations in Eastern Europe.

South Korea and the European Union have signed an agreement on co-operation in the satellite radio navigation programme Galileo.

Globecomm Systems said that it entered into a five-year agreement with a major US-based media production and distribution company in the United States valued at US$22 million.

The planned sale of Lockheed Martin’s stake in International Launch Services (ILS) came as a surprise to most observers but, according to Kommersant daily, was caused by Proton manufacturer “Khrunichev’s decision to raise the price of the rockets by 15 percent, to US$45-50 million each, to pay for the services of an intermediary to conclude contracts with ILS.”

Rocket: H-2A; Payload: IGS-2A(?) [classified intelligence-gathering satellite]; Date: 11 September 2006, 0435 UTC; Launch Site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The satellite was released into its planned orbit about 16 minutes after lift-off.