Satellite News

DirecTV Group revenues improved 17 percent to $4.1 billion in the 2007 second quarter but profits fell slightly to $448 million, the company announced Aug. 9. A year ago, the company reported profits of $459 million on revenues of $3.5 billion. DirecTV credited the revenue gain to strong growth in average…

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-1 satellite has been delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in advance of its scheduled launch Sept. 18, DigitalGlobe announced. The imagery satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., was developed under the U.S. National…

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a study contract for a joint lunar orbiter mission that may be conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom, SSTL announced Aug. 13…

Vision TV, a new direct-to-home (DTH) operator in the Ukraine, has signed a deal with NDS for conditional access and middleware services, the companies announced Aug. 13. NDS will provide Vision TV with its VideoGuard solution and its…

NASA signed a $1.8 billion contract with Alliant Techsystems (ATK) for the design, development, testing and evaluation of the first stage of the Ares 1 and Ares 5 launch vehicles, the organizations announced. In December 2005 NASA named ATK the prime contractor to design and develop the Ares 1 first stage…

The global communications satellite market is expected to generate deliveries of nearly 300 satellites in the next 10 years, but the U.S. share of those orders could fall, Forecast International said in a study released Aug. 13. While demand for satellite services in growing, an increase in satellite…

Xinhua news agency reported that since October 2006, at least three of the country’s satellites had temporary malfunctions.

Calian Technologies Ltd. said its SED division has received a contract valued at approximately C$10 million (EUR7.0 million, US$9.5 million) from Inmarsat to develop Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) for its new I-4 Earth station in Paumalu, Hawaii.