Satellite News

China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co., Ltd (China DBsat) confirmed that Sinosat-3 had suffered a temporary outage. Technical details of the malfunction have not been unveiled.

Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army recently completed successful testing of the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF, satellite communications production terminals.

Satellite systems for many of us are has become the way we get watch analogue, digital and High Definition TV. You most likely have a small dish but that’s all that’s needed to catch these channels because the footprint is centered at its targeted location. The thing is that if you tried turning the dish you might be able to scan in channels from different satellite positions. The sky is full of satellites and free channels which don’t require huge dishes.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a US$13.4 million U.S. Air Force contract to procure long-lead hardware for a second Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) spacecraft.

The United States Air Force said Friday that it has awarded Lockheed Martin a $262.5 million contract.

Iridium Satellite LLC announced that, in conjunction with Boeing, the companies have achieved two major milestones to further develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to the High Integrity Global Positioning System (GPS) programme for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Serbia Broadband (SBB) announced the expansion of its Total TV platform with new multi-year contracts concluded with Eutelsat Communications for two transponders at its 16 degrees video neighbourhood.

You have probably become a bit comfortable with your local cable TV company over the years. Sure the costs keep increasing and the channel selection isn’t always what you want. On the other hand, they are always there for you, ready to connect your service at your home or apartment.