Satellite News

WildBlue Communications, Inc. named Ed Knudson vice president of sales and marketing, the company announced Aug. 20. Knudson has more than 20 years of…

Glentel Inc. has acquired and installed a new satellite hub to bring pipeline monitoring and other control services to its oil and gas customers throughout Canada and the United States…

Sky Network Television, the leading pay-TV operator in New Zealand, added nearly 45,000 subscribers for the year that closed at the end of June, bringing its total subscriber base to nearly 715,000, the company…

Globecomm Systems Inc. has opened a broadcast operations center for Showtime Networks Inc., Globecomm announced. The 6,000-square-foot custom master and control facility at Globecomm’s Long Island International Teleport supports the transmission of 25 standard-definition…

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems has won a satellite terminal deal with Paradigm Services, which is authorized to lead satellite communications procurements for military users within the U.K. Ministry of Defence, Swe-Dish announced Aug. 20. Swe-Dish’s satellite communications systems offer…

The European Commission (EC) authorized the acquisition of Telenor Satellite Services by Apax Partners, concluding that the deal would not “significantly impede effective competition,” the EC announced Aug. 20. Telenor had been shopping its…

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Voyager 2 was launched on 20 August 1977, and Voyager 1 on 5 September 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.

Swedish mobile satellite communications equipment provider SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB said that it has secured a contract to supply satellite terminals to the UK Ministry of Defence (UK MoD).