Satellite News

DMC International Imaging Ltd. will add an imagery satellite to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation in 2008, the…

With the heated dispute between BSkyB and Virgin Media still fresh in the memory, United Kingdom communications regulator Ofcom will launch a market investigation…

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has taken a controlling interest in Orbital Optics Ltd., MDA announced March 20. MDA will pay 900,000 British pounds ($1.7 million) to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), which…

WildBlue Communications Inc. has started operations with its WildBlue-1 satellite, which will allow the company to more than triple its customer capacity, WildBlue…

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that its long-time customer, DCC Satellite & Networks Ltd., is expanding its network with Gilat’s SkyEdge platform to serve its customers in Nigeria.

Americom Government Services, Inc. (AGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES Americom, and Marshall Communications Corp., a provider of satellite-based telecommunications services and prime contractor, announced the renewal of a multi-year contract with NASA.

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.