Satellite News

In a foundation stone laying ceremony today, SES S.A. celebrated its EUR34 million investment in a new satellite control facilities at its Betzdorf campus as well as in an additional Business Center.

Lockheed Martin Corporation reported first quarter 2011 results.

SES World Skies announced three new capacity deals with Global Crossing to meet growing connectivity demand across Latin America.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Yahsat Y1A, Intelsat New Dawn; Date: 22 April 2011, 2137 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane 5 deployed Yahsat Y1A, the first satellite to be operated by the United Arab Emirates’ Al Yah Satellite Communications Company; along with Intelsat New Dawn, which was built for the new joint venture of Intelsat and Convergence Partners.
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Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite “Daichi” has lost power and may be a total loss.
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Russian authorities have re-established contact with the Geo-IK-2 satellite, which was interrupted in February.
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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a EUR54.5 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf of the European Commission, to supply a new version of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System), incorporating improvements that are indispensable for enhanced operability.
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If DirecTV satellite dish signal had to be broken into several parts to cater to different tuners, it was necessary to use a hardware that can successfully perform such a split. This hardware is the DirecTv SWM. SWMs or Single-wire multi-switches are basically switching devices that can be used to control many DirecTV satellite tuner or receivers simultaneously.
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