Satellite News

Tele Columbus, Germany’s third largest cable operator with more than 3.7 million homes, and Eutelsat’s German subsidiary, Eutelsat Deutschland, announced they will establish a platform for bundling digital channels and services for German cable homes on Eutelsat’s Eurobird 9 satellite.

The Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, has expanded its relationship with SES Americom by signing a multi-year, multi-transponder contract.

JAXA and Japanese companies, which have set up a public-private partnership (PPP) to develop the medium-sized Galaxy Express (GX) launch vehicle, disagree on how to proceed with the troubled project, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

The Russian Ekspress-AM22 satellite launched in 2003 may be in trouble, according to unconfirmed reports.

Russia’s first weather satellite in years, Meteor-M1, will be launched in the third quarter of this year, a space agency official was quoted as saying by Novosti.

The launch of ESA’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to the International Space Station has been delayed to 8 March, 0425 UTC.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts were launched on the STS-122 mission carrying Europe’s primary contribution to the International Space Station – the Columbus science laboratory.