Satellite News

The U.S. Navy awarded ViaSat an undefinitized, firm-fixed-price delivery order for multifunctional information distribution system-joint tactical radio…

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a $20.7 million contract from General Communication Inc., Globecomm…

“The question is where this extra money is going to come from. Is it going to come out of a hat?” — An unnamed source quoted by Thomson Financial commenting the discussion over additional public funding for Galileo

WorldSpace announced results for the first quarter of 2007 ending 31 March 2007.

JAXA has given up hope to perform any meaningful experiments with the experimental satellite Kiku No. 8 (ETS VIII) that was launched in December 2006, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

The Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered key ground segment software to support the launch of the programme’s first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully completed its Baseline Design Review for a Geostationary Mini-satellite Platform (GMP). The EUR2.28 million pre-development project forms part of ESA’s Advanced Research in TElecommunications Systems funding stream for ESA/Industry partnerships (ARTES 4).

Boeing said it has successfully completed end-to-end testing of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS, f.k.a. Wideband Gapfiller Satellite) payload command and control system, paving the way for the launch of the first WGS satellite this summer.