Satellite News

WorldSpace satellite radio says it will provide a free-to-air offering for listeners in Europe and north-west Africa while it tests its planned European mobile digital satellite radio service.

Eutelsat Communications said it has inked a contract for capacity on its Atlantic Bird 3 satellite with Telediffusion d’Algerie (TDA) to broadcast Algeria’s national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) package of television and radio channels.

Globecomm Network Services Corporation (GNSC) has been awarded a blanket indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at up to US$10 million from an unnamed global multilateral organisation.

Boeing said it has successfully demonstrated the communications and transmission security architecture of its proposed Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT).

Eutelsat Communications announced the signature of a multi-year contract with Canal Satellite Reunion, which is a subsidiary of Canal Overseas (Canal + Group).

ProtoStar Ltd. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) announced a two-pronged agreement for SingTel to provide ProtoStar with satellite control services and at the same time lease C-band capacity on ProtoStar’s first satellite.

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced that the company has been awarded a contract to provide a direct-to-home broadcast Earth station valued at US$1.0 million from an existing customer, which is a long-term European services provider.

Essel Group’s Agrani Satellite Services Ltd plans to buy Ku-band transponders aboard the planned ProtoStar 1 satellite, Indiantelevision.com reports.