Satellite News

All Road Communications, a San Diego-based satellite phone and services provider, expects motor races to drive demand for business this week, with the Baja 1000, Baja Haha and Dakar events in the offing. “The Baja 1000 off-road race is…

African countries are appealing for a key European space program to be extended into Africa. Representatives of the African Union, the ACP Secretariat and the five African Regional Economic Groupings (CEMAC, ECOWAS, IGAD, IOC and SADC) have…

Com Dev, a Canadian manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, delivered a key component for an international satellite…

Harris Corp. announced Oct. 16 that it has uplinked to a Milstar satellite using an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype system. Once fielded, the terminal will…

Preparing for its fifth mission of 2006, Sea Launch announced Oct. 16 that its Odyssey launch platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed from the company’s…

An Arianespace Ariane-5 rocket Oct. 13 completed a daylight launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, orbiting the DirecTV-9S and Optus-D1 satellites along with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s LDREX-2 piggyback payload. This was the…

Harris Corporation announced that it is the first company to successfully uplink to a Milstar satellite using an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype system.

India may not participate in the European Galileo navigation satellite programme because of security concerns, the Times of India reported.