Satellite News

Raytheon Company said it has partnered with The Boeing Company to bid for the U.S. Air Force’s Counterspace Command and Control Sustainment contract.

EMS Technologies, Inc., announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sky Connect LLC. for approximately US$15.5 million, subject to customary closing conditions.

EMS Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter 2008.

The European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. reported its financial results for the first half of 2008.

e2v has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide the high performance CCD image sensors to be used in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite.

Testing of Ekspress-AM44, started in April by the team of the JSC Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company (formerly NPO-PM) and Thales Alenia Space specialists, has successfully been completed.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory completed its portion of in-orbit testing of the first Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) system last March, according to a statement released recently.

Mobile Broadcasting Corp. (MBCo), a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., said that it will cease satellite digital multimedia broadcasting.