Satellite News

Eutelsat Communications SA said it’s “premature” to speculate on a potential problem related to the S-band capacity of Eutelsat W2A, and that it expects to receive insurance payment for Eutelsat W2M soon.

ICO North America, a unit of satellite communications company ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Ltd, has filed for bankruptcy.

Berry Smutny has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of OHB-System AG in Bremen, effective 1 July 2009, according to an announcement made by OHB-System AG’s Supervisory Board.

It’s been long since televisions have been included in our list of basic necessity and these day’s satellite receivers, free to air receivers have completely changed the purpose for which televisions were used earlier. Now, with the satellite receivers we can almost view five to six channels at a time, you can even have access to recording facilities in your TV through the satellite receivers. These receivers have reached the age of technological sophistication’s, high quality along with affordable and economical options.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Herschel, Planck; Date: 14 April 2009, 1312 UTC; Site: Kourou, French Guiana. Almost 26 minutes later, and about two minutes from each other, the two science satellites were released separately on an escape trajectory toward L2, some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth in the opposite direction to the Sun.

Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to deliver its new satellite for 7 degrees West called Atlantic Bird 7.

Mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel completed STS-125’s first spacewalk today at 2012 UTC.

Solaris Mobile, the joint venture set up by Eutelsat and SES Astra, announced that in the course of carrying out tests on its S-band satellite capacity aboard Eutelsat W2A, an anomaly has been detected in its performance.