Satellite News

China Central Television (CCTV), the national broadcaster of the People’s Republic of China, renewed a multi-year contract on Intelsat’s Galaxy 3C satellite for Ku-band capacity to distribute its regional direct-to-home (DTH) services in the United States.
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Intelsat, Ltd. announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has signed a multi-transponder deal for the video carriage of the 2008 Summer Games to Europe.
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Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) of Hong Kong, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of Chinese programmes, has selected capacity on the Eurobird 9 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications to launch its new multi-channel digital platform of Chinese-language channels for satellite homes across Europe.
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JAXA carried out a communication experiment with the University of Alaska last month successfully sending observation data from the Daichi satellite to the NASA White Sands Test Facility via the U.S. TDRS-10 data relay satellite. It was the world’s first data transmission test of this kind.
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Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. has signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat to distribute Intelsat’s Network Broadband Global Maritime service to its maritime customers.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced it space-based AIS payload, launched on the CAN-X2 satellite on 28 April, has validated the advanced space-based AIS performance capability which COM DEV has developed.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, which is currently the main relay for the Phoenix lander, has entered safe mode.
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Newtec said that satellite transmission tests using Newtec Azimuth equipment and carried out with Russian operators, RSCC and Gascom, have demonstrated performance and bandwidth efficiency set to rival that of even the most advanced international satellites.
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