Satellite News

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to provide the Anik G1 satellite to Telesat. The satellite is a multi-mission spacecraft that supports a variety of applications including direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasting in Canada; government requirements over the Americas and the Pacific; and broadband, voice, data and video services in South America.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with International Relations and Accounting Center of The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (Ministry) of the Republic of Azerbaijan to design, build and deliver the AzerSpace-1/Africasat-1a commercial communications satellite.

The Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a contract for SSC to provide S-band ranging service to KARI for the satellite mission COMS-1 (Communications, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite).

Former Serbia and Montenegro Defence Minister Prvoslav Davinic was indicted for abuse of office in connection with a contract renting the services of an Israeli spy satellite.

In case you are planning to purchase a laptop TV tuner, you should first become familiar with its features and functions in order to be able to get the one that suits you best. Laptop users can either go for the hardware-based or the soft-based notebook tuners.