Satellite News

Harris Corp. has named Cheryl Janey president of the Civil Programs business unit within the company’s Government…

The Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) is installing an on-board satellite television system for India’s…

Arianespace confirmed it will launch the Intelsat-11 satellite and the Horizons-2 satellite for Horizons Satellite LLC — a joint venture between Intelsat and JSAT — in September in a dual Ariane 5 mission…

Virgin Media, which competes against direct-to-home operator BSkyB in the United Kingdom, is…

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA signed an agreement in March that extends a long-standing cooperation agreement in the areas of satellite tracking, spacecraft navigation and mission operations, ESA announced April 2. The “Network and Operations Cross-Support” agreement covers…

Orbital Sciences Corporation celebrated the company’s first quarter-century in the space business today as it completed 25 years of operations since the enterprise’s founding on 2 April 1982.

The new Arabic version of FRANCE 24, which launched today at 14.00 UTC, is available through the Hotbird 8 broadcast satellite of Eutelsat Communications.

It is expected that the European Commission will issue a ruling this spring on use of the S-band spectrum which may pave the way to approval in Brussels.