Satellite News

Batelco, a telco in Bahrain, has signed a deal to offer satellite services to customers in the Middle East. Its memorandum of understanding with…

EchoStar, the U.S. pay-TV operator on Feb. 21 announced both a satellite launch and a major international investment. The company plans to launch with International Launch Services (ILS) a satellite in 2008 on a Proton Breeze-M vehicle built by ILS partner Khrunichev State…

The World Teleport Association has awarded this year’s Teleport Awards For Excellence.

Autonomous navigation software developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) drove the NASA Mars Rover “Opportunity” last week in the software’s first live test on the Red Planet.

Satellite communications provider CapRock Communications announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc.

EchoStar Asia Holdings Corporation, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corporation , announced it has invested US$40 million in TU Media Corp., South Korea’s only operator of satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (S-DMB) services.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2006.

Aerojet has delivered a new generation of 4.5 kilowatt Hall thrusters — the highest power flight-qualified Hall thrusters in the world — to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in support of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Air Force mission.