Satellite News

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a contract for the study phase of a potential joint US-UK lunar orbiter mission to be called Magnolia.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ITT Corporation and DigitalGlobe announced delivery of its WorldView-1 satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for its scheduled launch on 18 September 2007.

China may have to delay the launch of its Chang’e I moon probe, tentatively scheduled for September, because of a rather unusual reason–a ship collision.

NASA has signed a US$1.8 billion contract with Alliant Techsystems, known as ATK, for the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the first stage of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles.

Global broadband satellite network solutions and services provider Hughes Communications Inc. reported second-quarter increases in services, hardware sales and revenues, the company announced Aug. 10. For the second quarter ended June 30, 2007, revenues increased to $234.4 million or up 12.3 percent from the…

Worldspace Satellite Radio saw a slight drop in overall subscriptions during the second quarter of 2007, the company announced with its earnings report on Aug. 9. For the period ended June 30, 2007, the broadcaster ended with 190,333 subscribers worldwide, a loss of 1,313 or nearly 1 percent from the close…

Australian direct-to-home (DTH) operator Foxtel ended June with close to 1.3 million domestic direct customers, the company announced Aug. 9. The operator added 150,000 of those customers in the last year, an increase of more than 13 percent over the same period in 2006. In terms of its full-year numbers…

Gilat Satellite Networks announced strong increases in revenues and profits when it reported its second-quarter results on Aug. 9. The publicly traded, Israel-based company which designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries…