Satellite News

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. has selected Eutelsat Communications to supply capacity and services for delivering three of its entertainment channels, Boomerang, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), to cable networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

EU regulators will reportedly clear Thales’ plans to buy the satellite interests of Alcatel-Lucent.

The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre on INSAT-4B was successfully conducted with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board for 93 minutes by commanding the satellite from Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka, India.

Telesat has signed a consulting contract with the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistan’s national space agency.

According to the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), the explosion of a Zenit-3SL in late January was caused by poor workmanship that led to an engine failure.

End II End Communications has appointed Tariq Bhatty as regional…

In its newly released, 2007 edition of the “World Market Survey of Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2016 (11th edition),” Euroconsult expects governments around the world to launch a total of 616 satellites…

As part of an in-theater, urgent operational requirement program, QinetiQ integrated in less than 12 weeks’ time a civil satellite communications system into British…