Satellite News

European Satellite Link GmbH (ESL) acquired marine and land mobile satcoms specialist…

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and European satellite manufacturer Astrium GmbH signed an Aug. 30 contract for building the TanDEM-X satellite…

Lockheed Martin announced today that Marshall Byrd has been appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Space Systems. He succeeds Ted…

France’s Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry approved a deal that will consolidate the country’s two satellite-TV providers – Canalsat and TPS into a single unit. In December, Vivendi Universal, owner of Canal+ Group, and TF1 and M6, which own TPS…

NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to lead the design, development and construction of the agency’s next-generation crew vehicle, NASA announced Aug. 31. Lockheed Martin will be the prime contractor in the effort to build Orion, a reusable Apollo-style capsule that will be capable of carrying…

Alcatel Alenia Space has been boosted by the news that Eutelsat will retain it for the design, manufacturing, assembling, tests and on-ground delivery of the W2A satellite. Scheduled for launch in early 2009, the W2A…

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…