Satellite News

Harris Corp. completed a pair of milestones for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program, Harris announced. Harris…

See World Satellites Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FTS Group Inc., expects to post an increase of 35 percent to 38 percent in year-over-year top line sales for the month of January, FTS announced…

French direct-to-home operator Canalsat ended 2006, its final year of competition with rival TPS, with nearly 3.5 million subscribers, a net increase of…

Norsat International Inc. has received an order from Global TV to supply a turnkey satellite newsgathering system, Norsat…

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. has been awarded a development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue work on a geostationary small satellite platform, the…

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received two advanced technology contracts from EADS Astrium to provide a pair of…

Telenor Satellite Services has added Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service as well as other satellite services to its offerings under its U.S. General…

“They are forcing us [Russia] to provide a six-member crew for the station. To do this, we must immediately start building [space]craft, and old ones as well at the insistence of the Americans (they don’t want to fly any modified craft). … The only reason why they are tolerating us now is they need time to make their Orion [rocket]. And then they’ll dump us with our 40-year Soyuz.” (Pavel Vinogradov, commander of the Expedition 13 crew of the International Space Station, in an interview published by Novosti Kosmonavtiki)