Satellite News

Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,174,127 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The ‘127 patent is the eighteenth patent to issue to MSV relating to the company’s satellite- terrestrial hybrid system including Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology.

The DirecTV Group, Inc. announced financial results for 2006.

U.S. Air Force officials announced the successful launch and delivery for operational service of the second Interim Polar System payload.

The Swedish-led Prisma satellite system successfully passed a Critical Design Review (CDR) recently.

Anaren, Inc. has been selected to receive a contract valued in excess of US$8 million (EUR6.1 million) from Alcatel-Alenia Space (France) for development and production of integrated beamforming assemblies that will be deployed on the Globalstar-2 satellite payload.

The final segment of the flight primary mirror for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has completed manufacturing and been delivered for grinding and polishing, a major milestone achieved by Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Corp. and its subcontractors.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite ahead of schedule to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Advanced EHF programme.

Gazkom (aka Gascom), the telecommunications unit of Russian energy giant Gazprom, plans to launch four low-orbit remote sensing satellites.