Satellite News

Australia Network, the Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s international TV channel, has acquired additional capacity from Intelsat under a renewal of its multiyear contract…

The PTR Group Inc., a real-time and embedded technology and engineering services provider, said that it helped develop the Target Indicator Experiment (TIE) aboard the recently launched TacSat 2 satellite.

Telenor Satellite Services said it now offers high-speed 128 kbps maritime satellite communications service globally.

Intelsat announced that Australia Network, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s international television channel, has renewed its multi-year contract with Intelsat, and expanded the contract to include transmission services on an additional satellite.

The newest modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin , has been declared fully operational by the U.S. Air Force following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems.

Rocket: Kosmos 3M; Payload: SAR-Lupe 1; Date: 19 December 2006, 1400 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. Germany’s first spy satellite was successfully placed in a near-polar 500 km orbit, inclined at 98 degrees.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received the first signals from the Engineering…

SeaMobile Inc. announced Dec. 18 that it has signed a definitive agreement to…