Satellite News

General Dynamics C4 Systems will supply tactical antennas and radio support equipment to the German Armed Forces for the SATCOMBw Step 2 Program, General Dynamics announced Jan. 31. SATCOMBw Step 2 will create a complete satellite communications infrastructure under…

BSkyB’s reported strong subscriber growth but an increased churn rate in the company’s second quarter, which closed Dec. 31. BSkyB closed the period with nearly 8.4 million subscribers. During the second quarter, BSkyB reported customer additions…

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has been awarded a 12-month contract by the U.S. Army to support the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) system, TCS announced Jan. 31. Under the contract…

The schedule for the remainder of Sea Launch’s 2007 manifest remains uncertain following the loss of a Zenit-3SL vehicle and the SES New Skies NSS-8 satellite Jan. 30. A live Internet broadcast of the launch by Sea Launch was cut off as a fireball enveloped the platform seconds after the anticipated liftoff…

Telenor Satellite Services has received a modification to its existing U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) contract expanding the variety and types of satellite services available to all United States government agencies and authorised government contractors.

General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics , has been selected by ND SatCom Defence GmbH of Friedrichshafen, Germany, to supply strategic and tactical antennas and radio support equipment to the German Armed Forces SATCOMBw Step 2 programme.

Boeing Co. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2006.

There’s good news for JAXA/ISAS’ troubled Hayabusa asteroid sample return probe, which was launched 2003 on a mission that turned out to be plagued by a host of problems.