Satellite News

COM DEV International Ltd. and GateHouse A/S of Aalborg, Denmark, announced the signing of a strategic alliance agreement to combine their respective skills and capabilities to enable COM DEV’s space-based AIS (Automatic Identification System) data to be collected, stored, managed and displayed.

Eutelsat Communications announced the conclusion of a five-year contract on its W4 satellite with Entertainment Highway Ltd (EHL) for a new pay-TV platform serving Nigeria.

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have developed a new 18 meter near Earth Ka-band Antenna Network, the first in NASA history.

Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter and said the launch of new satellites would be delayed.

OHB Technology AG reported financial results for the first nine months of 2007.

The year-end launch of RazakSAT, Malaysia’s second low Earth orbit microsatellite, from Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, has been postponed to next year.