Satellite News

ShifTV Inc., an Internet broadcaster of ethnic and niche programming, announced Dec. 20 an exclusive IPTV agreement with Sky Angel, a…

Swales Aerospace has completed a critical design review for the TacSat-3 Modular Bus program, the company announced. TacSat-3 is sponsored by…

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract valued at about $50 million to execute a system design review for the next-generation GPS space segment, Lockheed Martin announced…

Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture the W7 satellite for Eutelsat Communications, the two companies announced Dec. 21. The spacecraft…

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a five-year Life Cycle Support services contract from Harris Corporation valued at US$5.5 million, subject to annual funding, to sustain the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) FTI-SAT programme.

As of 1 February 2007, Intelsat will change the names of 16 of its 51 satellites, mainly as a consequence of the company’s acquisition of PanAmSat.

Scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have met a critical milestone in the development of aerocapture technology, a manoeuvre that primarily uses a planet’s atmosphere to capture a spacecraft and place it in the desired orbit.

Space Micro Inc. announced that its Proton100k Space Computer was launched successfully aboard the TacSat-2 Satellite on 16 December.