Satellite News

Indian telecom firm Reliance Communications (RCom) has booked capacity on Measat-3.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced that SkyVision Global Networks LLC, a provider of Internet services over satellite and terrestrial fibre optic systems, has signed a multi-transponder agreement for C-Band capacity on the Africasat-1 satellite.

Raytheon Company has won the U.S. Air Force’s competition to upgrade a satellite communications system that provides protected communications to the U.S. military around the world.

Tele Columbus, Germany’s third largest cable operator with more than 3.7 million homes, and Eutelsat’s German subsidiary, Eutelsat Deutschland, announced they will establish a platform for bundling digital channels and services for German cable homes on Eutelsat’s Eurobird 9 satellite.

The Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, has expanded its relationship with SES Americom by signing a multi-year, multi-transponder contract.

On the occasion of the 2008 Mobile World Congress, Alcatel-Lucent, DiBcom, Eutelsat Communications, Sagem Mobiles, SES Astra, TeamCast and UDcast are joining forces to deliver the first demonstration of live Mobile TV in S-Band based on DVB-SH covering the whole FIRA premises in Barcelona.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has demonstrated the interface compatibility of the next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite with user ground terminals using the new Extended Data Rate (XDR) waveform and protocols.

NovAtel Inc. said it was recently awarded a shared contribution contract valued at C$668,000 by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to establish sites in Canada to monitor the Galileo GIOVE test satellites.