Satellite News

Following a contract signed recently between TeleCable and Skylogic (Eutelsat’s broadband affiliate), Telecable is now initiating widespread deployment of the Tooway satellite broadband service in Asturias (a northern region of Spain).

The launch of the first SBIRS-GEO satellite in December 2009 could be jeopardised under certain circumstances, the U.S. General Accounting Office warned in a study. The programme had recently been plagued by problems with the flight software.

Researchers at Queen’s University are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations.

There are still contradicting statements as to what exactly caused the recent outage of the GIOVE-B test satellite.