Satellite News

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.

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.