Satellite News

Unlimi-Tech Software Inc. has announced its introduction of FileCatalyst 2.0 to offer broadcasters, carriers, telecoms, post-production houses and digital delivery or system integration companies a software-based product to…

Homeland Integrated Security Systems Inc. (HISC) has received final regulatory approvals on its patent-pending Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)…

GlobeCast successfully provided the first-ever live, high-definition (HD) contribution service from Saint Peter’s Square to Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), the official television station of the Vatican…

Symmetricom Inc., a provider of precise-time and frequency technologies to accelerate deployment and enable management of next-generation networks, rolled…

A payload of 14 satellites was delivered on April 17 in the first launch of a Dnepr rocket since a July 2006 failure, Russian officials reported. Egyptian, Saudi and U.S. satellites were lofted into orbit after taking off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Ukrainian-Russian Dnepr-1 rocket’s payload…

The U.S. Air Force has issued a $6 million contract for Lockheed Martin to develop and integrate a demonstration payload to temporarily transmit a third civil signal on a modernized Global Positioning System Block 2R (GPS 2R-M) satellite, Lockheed Martin announced April 19. The contract…

SES Astra announced that pay-TV broadcaster Premiere has signed an agreement to use SES Astra’s digital satellite platform entavio in Germany.

Michael Laine, founder and president of space elevator company LiftPort, has announced the firm would for the time being focus on balloon-borne platforms in a desperate attempt to make some money until September.