Satellite News

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Dec. 11 that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded MSV its 16th…

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Dec. 12 that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., has received orders totaling $1.9…

Raytheon Co. delivered the first rapid-development, space-optical payload to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the company announced. The $14 million ARTEMIS (Advanced…

Academic researchers can now scan the United States and Canada via a newly available, high-resolution satellite image catalog developed under a deal between the University of California at Santa…

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting announced details Dec. 12 of a request for proposal (RFP) for a new…

The Measat-3 satellite was placed into orbit Dec. 12 by a Proton launch vehicle, marking the final 2006 mission for International Launch…

In a recent press release regarding interoperability tests between TSAT and the Airborne Lasercom Risk Reduction Terminal, Boeing confused gigabytes with gigabits. Specifically, data capacity afforded by the Lasercom service will be starting at 2.5 gigabits per second and can reach up to 10 gigabits per second (not gigabytes as erroneously claimed). The article in our archive has been updated accordingly.

NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission, operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), celebrated its 5th launch anniversary on 7 December 2006, and its many contributions enabling a greater understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere.