Satellite News

Boeing Co. has been awarded a contract to launch a pair of commercial satellites in 2007 for the Italian Space Agency, Boeing announced Dec. 11. Under the contract from Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, the prime…

Arianespace performed the fifth and final Ariane 5 mission of 2006, placing the WildBlue-1 and AMC-18 spacecraft into orbit Dec. 8, Arianespace announced. WildBlue-1, manufactured by Space Systems/Loral, will triple the capacity available to…

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced it has been selected by Integradores de Tecnologia to provide a 4,382-site SkyEdge VSAT network serving more than 9,600 Mexican public-school classrooms, to support the “middle-school” phase of the Mexican Ministry of Education’s (SEP) Enciclomedia programme. The deployment of the network hub and terminals has already begun.

Intelsat announced that it has renewed and expanded its agreement with the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) for international distribution of the league’s games. The NBA distribution network will now include full-time and upgraded Intelsat capacity in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

ViaSat, Inc. finalised a US$35 million dollar subcontract modification with Boeing Integrated Defense Systems for the Family of Advanced Beyond-line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) programme.

Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded its sixteenth patent relating to Ancillary Terrestrial Component (”ATC”) technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent addresses essential architectural aspects of ATC technology, the linchpin of MSV’s next generation integrated satellite- terrestrial wireless broadband network.

The TANGO (Telecommunications Advanced Networks for GMES Operations) project led by Astrium Satellites has been selected for co-funding by the European Commission.

Integral Systems, Inc. reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006.