Satellite News

A star sensor developed and manufactured by a German company Jena-Optronik GmbH has been already delivered to Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.

The Chinese government has always supported international action to reduce space junk, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was quoted as saying by Xinhua. Always? Not in January 2007, that is.

Inmarsat Government, a wholly owned subsidiary of Inmarsat plc, announced that it has been awarded a contract to continue providing Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The contract is valued at up to US$3.5 million over five years, which includes an initial contract period of one year and the option to extend the agreement in four one-year increments.

Leading companies from the Spanish telecommunications sector and the movie industry have teamed up in order to modernise the cinematographic contents distribution . It is estimated that, at the outset, they will be able to distribute 20,000 film copies and 30,000 trailers per year to 2,000 movie theatres all over the country, using the Hispasat 1E satellite and with no need for hardware supports.

Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited has selected Newtec to provide a Ka-band hub platform including terminals to offer B2B and B2C broadband services.