Satellite News

The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard, P.C said that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of all persons who acquired common stock of Worldspace, Inc. since the company’s IPO on 4 August 2005.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has taken a controlling interest in Orbital Optics Limited (OOL), a commercial spin-off of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) based in Oxfordshire, England.

A Spanish government official rejected claims that the country’s two firms participating in the Galileo project, Hispasat and Aena, were to blame for the latest delays in building the European navigation satellite system.

WildBlue announced that it began offering high-speed Internet via satellite service through its new satellite, WildBlue-1, earlier today.

SpaceX will try to launch its Falcon 1 rocket from Omelek Island, Marshall Islands, today at 2300 UTC (too late for this issue) after yesterday’s launch attempt was scrubbed because of a communications problem.