Satellite News

XM Satellite Radio announced Dec. 19 that Joan Lordi Amble has…

David Stone, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has been named to the board of directors…

Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Audi Canada separately announced that Sirius…

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced plans Dec. 19 to locate a satellite receiving station in India for capturing data from the future National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental…

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, announced Dec. 19 that an agreement…

The first satellite in Germany’s SAR-Lupe system was placed into orbit Dec. 19 by a Russian Cosmos 3M booster, satellite prime contractor OHB-System announced. The system of five identical satellites, which will be…

Asia Satellite Telecommunications company Limited (AsiaSat) and commercial broadcaster Shamshad TV of Afghanistan announced the signing of a lease agreement for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 2.

Universal Space Network, Inc. (USN), a provider of space operations and ground control and communications services, along with subcontractor Integral Systems Incorporated (ISI), announced the successful demonstration of the TCP/IP Space Link Extension (SLE) with a U.S. Air Force (USAF) satellite utilising Space Ground Link Subsystem (SGLS) and Unified S-Band (USB) receiving channels.