Satellite News

Texas-based NTE Automation has selected SkyWave Mobile Communications to supply reliable D+ terminals and…

NDS posted strong increases in revenues and overall profits and revenues among its full year results to the end of June, the company announced Aug. 7. The conditional access and middleware vendor works…

Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (Yahsat) has signed a deal with European satellite companies EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space for the buildout of a dual satellite communications system, Yahsat announced Aug. 8. The two satellites are scheduled for launch in the second half of 2010. Worth an…

AeroAstro announced that the STPSat-1 payload, SHIMMER, successfully gathered data from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 8 June.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that John Keating has resumed his duties as Chief Executive Officer of the company.

ViaSat, Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended on 29 June.

Al Yah Satellite Communications company (Yahsat), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, awarded a contract to a joint team of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build a US$1.66 billion (EUR1.20 billion) dual satellite communications system ready for launch in the second half of 2010.

The launches of two U.S. military satellites, the Defense Support Program (DSP) 23 spacecraft and WGS F1, have apparently been delayed.