Satellite News

Telenor Satellite Services has signed a three-year extension with Hurtigruten Group for at-sea maritime broadband communications on board Hurtigruten’s fleet of cruise and…

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communication terminals and maintenance, the company…

Jared “Jerry” Abbruzzese stepped down Jan. 22 as chairman of the board for TerreStar Networks Inc. and chairman of TerreStar Global Ltd., the majority-owned subsidiaries of Motient Corp. announced. The resignation, which…

Spanish highway operator abertis, through its telecommunciations subsidiary abertis telecom, has completed the purchase of 32 percent of European satellite operator, Eutelsat Communications, via a cash payment of EUR1.07 billion.

Alcatel Alenia Space announced that it has signed a EUR103 million contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense to provide the telecommunication satellite Sicral 1B.

After days of silence, Chinese officials have confirmed that the destruction of the country’s Fengyun 1C weather satellite was the result of an anti satellite (ASAT) weapon test.

Eutelsat Communications’ HotBird offering has surpassed 1,000 digital channels, the company announced Jan. 19. Eutelsat said its audience had increased during 2006 from 111 million to 121 million homes, of which 40 percent (47.5 million) are equipped for…

Alcatel Alenia Space has signed contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense to manufacture and deliver the Sicral-1B telecommunications satellite and several of ground segment subsystems, the company…