Satellite News

Boeing has successfully completed a critical design review of key Ultra High Frequency (UHF) payload subsystems for the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) programme. Boeing will provide its Legacy UHF payload to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the MUOS programme.

JAXA said that the launch of an H-2A rocket to carry a radar spy satellite has been rescheduled for 24 February local time, citing predicted poor weather around the Kagoshima Prefecture launch site.

International Launch Services (ILS) announced that EchoStar Communications Corporation will launch a satellite in 2008 on a Proton Briz M vehicle. But which one?

The questionable world/space record China achieved in January by blowing up one of its old weather satellites may have been short-lived. A Russian upper stage blew up in orbit on 19 February, possibly creating even more space junk than the Chinese ASAT test — or any other breakup event.

Orbital Data Net Inc. is forming the Network of Emergency Satellite Technicians (NEST) as an extended group of satellite technicians trained to respond to communication needs during crisis situations…

DayPort, a content management solution specialist, has signed a new deal with U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, BSkyB to provide…

Turkish satellite pay-TV operator Digiturk has teamed with httv to broadcast a new range of interactive services…

According to Ondas Media, which plans to launch satellite radio services throughout Europe, 68 percent of potential users are interested in the…