Satellite News

Ball Aerospace said its Next Generation Satellite and Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC) has shown excellent performance during pre-separation servicing demonstrations in the first weeks following its 8 March launch with the Boeing Company’s Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter (ASTRO).

India’s latest communication satellite INSAT-4B has become fully operational and will reach its final location tomorrow, ISRO announced.

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI, formerly Israel Aircraft Industries) have teamed to build and launch operational surveillance satellites in a responsive production cycle to provide U.S. government users with all-weather, day/night imaging capabilities.

Dates have been announced for the launch of the Italian Agile spacecraft aboard an Indian rocket; the launch of four Globalstar satellites aboard a Russian rocket; and the next space shuttle flight.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: Haiyang-1B; Date: 11 April 2007, 0327 UTC; Launch Site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China. The country’s second oceanic survey satellite entered its preset orbit a few minutes after lift-off.

Mobile TV will produce a variety of satellite opportunities for S-band direct access and Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) channel distribution/backhauling in many markets, a study from NSR found. S-band services are generating positive results in Asia via TU Media in Korea with more than 1.1 million…

Modulus Video Inc. introduced the MRE2000 family–a new class of video receiver/encoder systems intended to streamlines direct broadcast…

SES Americom unveiled a high-definition service intended to provide a bandwidth home to customers using IP-based connectivity platforms for providing voice and data communication to satellite newsgathering (SNG) trucks, the company announced April 10. The service, delivered via the AMC-5…