Satellite News

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.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun the final and fastest-paced portion of its “aerobraking” process of using friction with the top of Mars’ atmosphere to shrink the spacecraft’s orbit. Meanwhile, the satellite has developed problems with a waveguide transfer switch.

NASA has cancelled its decision to roll the Space Shuttle Atlantis off its launch pad and back inside the protection of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.