Satellite News

The first of two satellite payloads for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission is undergoing pre-launch preparations after arriving at the Spaceport in French Guiana last week.

China plans to build and launch in 2008 a replacement for its failed Sinosat 2 direct broadcast satellite.

Jean-Jacques Dordain, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), believes that space technologies can help reduce the digital divide in Europe, but that it is up to others to decide how best these solutions are implemented. Dordain told Satellite Today, “I think the…

DigitalGlobe, a commercial high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial information products provider, has joined the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), NASA and the Medallion Foundation to launch a research and development project designed to help improve aviation safety in Alaska. The…

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. is providing a broadband satellite network including more than 3,000 VSATs for deployment at one of…

Setanta Sports pulled off an upset of sorts on March 30 when it outbid BSkyB in an auction for soccer broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom. In a deal worth 425 million pounds ($834.50 million), Setanta and ITV had won the broadcast rights to screen the FA Cup and England matches…

Boeing has elevated Rockwell Collins to major subcontractor status on the contract for the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) project, a transformational U.S. Department of…

EMS Satcom, added its CNX-300 Mobile Access Router to its CNX Cabin gateway series of airborne networking…