Satellite News

Iridium Satellite has appointed OTESAT-Maritel as an authorized service provider, Iridium announced March 16. A satellite communications equipment and services provider to the Greek and international maritime markets…

MobiTV has hired GlobeCast to manage content ingestion to support live-TV delivery to MobiTV’s mobile and…

Telesat Canada has signed a contract to aid in the launch of Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite, according to Vietnamese state news service TTXVN. Under the contract, signed in Ottawa March 16 with Vietnam’s…

CIP Canada Investment Inc. will acquire Stratos Global Corp., the largest distributor of Inmarsat services, in a deal funded in part by Inmarsat, the companies announced March…

On 17 March 2002 Russia-built lightweight Rokot rocket blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Northern Russia, carrying two NASA/DLR science Grace spacecraft. The twin GRACE satellites were successfully deployed into a near polar orbit.

Stratos Global Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by CIP Canada Investment Inc. (”CIP Canada”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Investment Partners Limited (”CIP”), a professional investment company with a focus on satellite services.

The loss of NSS-8 and its Zenit 3SL launch vehicle in an explosion on Sea Launch’s ocean-going launch platform is to cost insurers more than US$250 million, according to Best’s Review.

The Eurobird 4 (formerly known as Eurobird 10, formerly known as Hotbird 3) satellite of Eutelsat Communications has initiated commercial service at the group’s 4 degrees East position.