Satellite News

Faria WatchDog Inc. has chosen Quake Global Inc.’sQ9612 modem to provide two-way satellite communications for its vessel monitoring system (VMS), Quake Global announced March 26. Faria WatchDog was recently…

GlobeCast has equipped 113 of France Telecom/Orange’s sales boutiques with its digital signage system, GlobeCast Captive Audience. The…

Eutelsat Communications and Russian business channel RBC-TV have agreed to a…

EuroNews, a pan-European news channel, will offer widespread coverage across Africa. It has launched…

Eutelsat Communications and Russian business television channel RBC-TV announced the signature of a five year contract for lease of capacity on the Hotbird 6 television satellite for free-to-air broadcasting over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Russia has earmarked RUB9.88 billion (EUR285 million, US$380 million) for its GLONASS navigation satellite systemin 2007, the Federal Russian Space Agency said.

With six months to go before launch, the Second Young Engineers’ Satellite (YES2) has been moved into the test facilities at ESA’s Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.

SpaceX confirmed that the contact between the Falcon 1’s first and second stage during separation likely caused the partial failure of the second stage. The bump apparently started a development that finally led to the premature shutdown of the stage’s engine. New data show, however, that the flight was nonetheless more successful than previously thought.