Satellite News

Racepoint Group Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based public relations and marketing consultancy, was hired Nov. 14 by…

The first HDTV broadcast from space, featuring crew members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 14, was received on Nov. 15 and carried by Discovery…

The Americom-18 (AMC-18) satellite has been delivered to Kourou, French Guiana, in preparation for its Dec. 8 Ariane-5 ECA launch, SES Americom announced Nov. 15. AMC-18, an all C-band satellite, is designed to offer full North American…

The Measat-3 communications satellite has been shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems’ satellite-manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, Boeing reported Nov. 14. Measat-3 will be readied for a…

Protostar Ltd.,a Bermuda-based corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, worked closer to its Asian satellite service by successfully closing on $210 million in financing to purchase and launch its first satellite. Preceded by a $40 million series-B round completed…

“In 2008-09 Kazakhstan will have a satellite potential equal to that of France. France has six satellites now, but Kazakhstan will have seven in two years.” — Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov according to Interfax.

In anticipation of the spring 2007 launch of its extremely high-resolution Earth imagery satellite, GeoEye has purchased high-bandwidth, high-performance compute technology from SGI .

Lockheed Martin’s Atlas launch vehicle programme has received the 2006 Aviation Week & Space Technology 2006 Program Excellence Award.