Satellite News

Rockwell Collins International has chosen EMS SATCOM, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., to develop a satcom system for the Boeing 747-8, EMS Technologies…
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Lockheed Martin has integrated the spacecraft propulsion core structure and the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite, the…
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Arabsat has signed a contract with a consortium of European companies, Astrium and Thales Alenia Space, to build its fifth-generation satellites, with Arianespace and ILS each agreed to launch one in 2009 or 2010, respectively. A firm contract for Arabsat-5A and BADR-5 was signed on June…
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract for five SES satellites to be launched on Proton Breeze M vehicles…
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Thales Alenia Space has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract worth 229 million euros ($306.7 million) for the first of five Earth observation satellite…
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) was selected the ‘Satellite Communications Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific’, announced by global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan at its annual Asia Pacific ICT Awards Banquet held in Singapore on 15 June.
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GE International Holdings Inc., a holding company for the satellite businesses of General Electric Company, is now engaged in business in Asia under the name of SAT-GE. SAT-GE offers satellite capacity across the Pacific region using the GE-23 satellite (former name AMC-23).
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London-based private-equity firm BC Partners was in the lead to purchase satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. for about US$5 billion plus the assumption of about US$11.5 billion in debt, The Wall Street Journal Online reported.
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