Satellite News

The World Teleport Association (WTA) has published its 2006 Top Operators, the world’s only yearly rankings of teleport operating companies by revenue and growth rate.

Globalstar, Inc. announced that it has priced its initial public offering of 7,500,000 shares (increased from 6,500,000) of common stock at US$17.00 per share.

South Korea and Japan agreed to make joint efforts in avoiding frequency interference between the recently launched Mugunghwa 5 (Koreasat 5) and Japan’s NSAT 110, Yonhap news agency reports.

China is still working on its own satellite navigation system, Beidou (”Compass”). It will eventually comprise five satellites in GEO and 30 in MEO, Xinhua news agency reports. This is a change to an earlier approach that in essence envisioned a mainly regional instead of the now — apparently — planned global system.

NASA has rescheduled the launch of its five identical THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) microsatellites aboard a Delta II from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.