Satellite News

British Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. was recognized as the winner among the Times Higher Educational Supplement…

Battery producer Eaglepicher Technologies has landed a new, $1.8 million contract to provide nickel-hydrogen battery cells to Lockheed Martin for use on a new U.S. Navy satellite communications system, Eaglepicher reported. The Mobile User…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has created a special layer of content that will appear in Google Earth, enabling people to see more than 130 new satellite images including natural phenomena and manmade landmarks such as the Palm…

NASA is using one space probe orbiting Mars to search for another spacecraft left missing around the planet. Earlier in the month, the Mars Global Surveyor lost contact with Earth for…

A Boeing Delta II launch vehicle successfully delivered to orbit Nov. 17 a replenishment Block 2R Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The Delta II has launched all of the GPS 2R satellites. The launch also marked the…

BSkyB, a satellite pay-TV operator in the United Kingdom, has announced that it will take a stake of nearly 18 percent in commercial broadcaster ITV. The total cost of the acquisition is 940 million…

A People’s Republic of China communications and broadcast satellite is failing less than a month into orbit because of malfunctioning solar panels, according to Internet reports. In a Nov. 20 article, the South Africa-based Independent Online cited the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and…

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies announced that they have received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to proceed with their proposed merger transaction.