Satellite News

Intelsat announced that Telenor Satellite Services expanded a multi-year contract with Intelsat to include transmission services on three different spacecraft in C- and Ku-band.

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a spares contract valued at up to US$4.5 million from a global multilateral organisation.

AsiaSat reported financial results for the year 2006 and said the launch of its new satellite, AsiaSat 5,

SpaceDev announced that its subsidiary, Starsys, Inc., has been awarded a follow-on order for the solar array rotational drive assemblies and drive control electronics for the DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 satellite programme from Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation.

The SES satellites AMC-12/Astra 4A and AAP-1 have been transferred to SES New Skies, which will now be responsible for all customer and capacity management activities associated with these satellites.

GlobeCast signed a deal with U.K-based Baby Network to deliver the Baby TV on the BSkyB direct-to-home platform via capacity on the Eurobird satellite. Launched as…

Hughes Network Systems LLC will provide a broadband satellite solution for Islamabad, Pakistan-based Orocom Ltd., a technology systems provider, Hughes…

Trace Systems LLC, a McLean, Va.-based, wireless-communications provider, has been selected by D&S Consultants Inc. of Freehold, N.J., to support delivery of information technology and…