Satellite News

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.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said that underwriters bought their full allotment of additional shares in Gilat’s public offering, bringing gross proceeds to US$68.4 million (EUR51.8 million).

The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) instrument — designed and built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) — has begun returning images of the Sun’s corona as part of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).