Satellite News

French pay-TV operator Canal Plus has finalized a deal to acquire its direct-to-home (DTH) rival TPS and create…

SkyTerra Communications, Inc. announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of BCE, Inc.’s stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV).

Arianespace said its sales in 2006 were in line with the company’s forecasts, but huge profits still aren’t in sight.

Boeing said the team that is building the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has successfully passed the System Critical Design Review (CDR) as the U.S. Air Force authorised the programme to proceed toward a December 2008 launch.

NASA has authorised a contract action having a value of US$48 million with ATK Thiokol to continue design and development of the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle.

Kazakhstan has lifted the ban on the launches of Dnepr rockets from Baikonur cosmodrome, a Kazakh official said according to Interfax.

Arianespace has rescheduled the launch of Skynet 5A, Britain’s first military communications satellite, and India’s INSAT 4B.

New satellite operator ProtoStar Ltd. has chosen Arianespace to launch the DTH satellite ProtoStar I, formerlyknown as ChinaSat 8.