Satellite News

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator Cofetel has approved bidding rules for a second attempt to auction a license to operate a Ka-band satellite at 109.2 degrees West, the regulator said in a statement.

NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of travelling five or more times the speed of sound.

ISS Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin retracted a stuck antenna on a cargo spacecraft during a 6-hour, 18-minute spacewalk.

EchoStar announced that a Hong Kong-based affiliate of the company will become the primary provider of S-band satellite capacity for China’s mobile video project.

Arianespace announced that it will launch the AMC-21 telecommunications satellite. SES Americom had originally booked a Zenit 3-SLB launch for the spacecraft.

Artel, a global provider of information technology and managed network services, announced Feb. 21 that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has…

ViaSat is acquiring privately held Intelligent Compression Technologies (ICT), ViaSat announced Feb. 21. ICT provides…

Giat has won a key VSAT deal in one of Africa’s major markets by signing a deal with Nigerian ISP Hyperia, which will…