Satellite News

SISLink, Europe’s largest supplier of satellite uplinks, has signed a new contract with Eutelsat Communications for a total of 4,000 hours of capacity in average 9-MHz slots on a range of Eutelsat satellites until 1 June 2009.

Intelsat announced two contract renewals regarding capacity on various Galaxy satellites.

NigComSat and DigiTech Broadcasting Limited, a Nigerian wholly-owned signal carrier distributor, have signed a joint venture agreement on the utilisation of the NigComSat communication satellite for digital broadcasting operations.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced the launch of the fastest consumer broadband satellite Internet access plan ever offered — once again.

SES Astra announced that, via its Nordic affiliate SES Sirius, it has contracted four transponders on its new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to the Lithuanian satellite services provider SatGate.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory completed its portion of in-orbit testing of the first Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) system last March, according to a statement released recently.

General Dynamics C4 Systems recently mounted three 18.4-meter satellite antennas on 16-m-tall pedestals in Wahiawa, Hawaii/USA, as part of the preparations to deploy the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military’s next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications system.

NASA said it had not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) from JAXA.