Satellite News

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has been selected by Intelsat, LLC to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 15 (IS-15) commercial communications satellite.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, along with its X-51A team members — U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA and Boeing — successfully demonstrated operation and performance of the X-1 scramjet engine in the first simulated flight at Mach 5 of the X-51A.

DataPath Inc. has named five appointments to its board of directors, the company announced April 30. Among the additions are Valerie Baldwin, a former assistant secretary and chief…

Industry Canada granted an application April 30 by TMI Communications and Co. Ltd. to transfer its 2-gigahertz…

International Communications Group received parts-manufacturer approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to produce and…

Patrick Brant has joined SkyPort Global Communications Inc. as president and CEO, the company announced April 30. Brant most recently served as CEO and president of Loral Skynet, the satellite operations unit of Loral…

Russian direct-to-home operator NTV-Plus has launched three high-definition (HD) channels…

CloudSat, a satellite mission conceived by Colorado State University scientist Graeme Stephens, celebrated its first anniversary on 28 April as the world’s most sensitive cloud-profiling radar in orbit.