Satellite News

Newtec is partnering with UDCast to present a mobile TV system for distribution of digital video broadcasting-handheld signals via…

Northrop Grumman Corp. demonstrated a GPS range-tracking system developed for the Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the company announced Feb. 9. The system, one…

Representatives from public television stations nationwide will urge Congress this week to mandate satellite carriage of local stations’ digital signals, the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) announced Feb 12. Public TV executives are complaining…

Telenor Satellite Services has teamed with Telemar Scandinavia AB to deliver broadband maritime communications aboard 27 vessels…

SES Astra said that the number of High Definition (HD) channels broadcast via the Astra Satellite System has increased significantly.

Five Russian rocket and space companies will later this year merge into a holding with the Khrunichev space centre at its core, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) said.

The U.S. Air Force said its Materiel Command’s Space Vehicles Directorate and Composite Technology Development have developed a technology that could protect spacecraft components such as solar arrays and antennas when deployed.

SpaceDev said that its subsidiary, Starsys Inc., has successfully tested the low disturbance actuation system for the ground link antenna pointing gimbal for the GeoEye-1 satellite, currently being built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.