Satellite News

NSR has released the latest edition to its industry-standard report “Broadband Satellite Markets: 6th Edition.” The report is an analysis of the global market for enterprise & SME VSAT networks, single site satellite broadband Internet access services, and satellite IP trunking applications.

GeoEye announced recent new awards totalling US$23.9 million to supply multiple U.S. government customers with high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, geospatial products and services.

Sirius Satellite Radio announced first quarter 2007 financial results.

Telesat Canada in a lawsuit said that Boeing officials withheld information or “recklessly” failed to issue timely warnings regarding the degradation of novel solar arrays aboard Telesat’s Anik F1, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A new experimental engine to enable satellites to manoeuvre in orbit will be tested on the Yubiley (Jubilee) satellite, to be launched this autumn, Interfax said in a report.

Xilinx, Inc. said that ITT Corporation has adopted Xilinx Virtex-II QPro radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as a key enabling technology for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS).

Integral Systems, Inc. announced a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) to expand JSAT Corporation’s existing EPOCH-based ground system to support their new JCSAT-11 satellite, a Lockheed Martin A2100 model spacecraft scheduled to be launched later this year.

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved a project for the launch of Pakistan’s first communication satellite system (Paksat-1R) in collaboration with China, the Daily Times reported.