Satellite News

ESA’s Mars Express will be following the Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) phase of NASA’s Phoenix lander, due to be launched on 4 August.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG may join with a team headed by cellular-telephone giant T-Mobile to offer broadband Internet access and wireless e-mail to its long-haul passengers, replacing the defunct Connexion by Boeing service, industry officials said according to AP.
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SES New Skies announced that Afsat, one of Africa’s largest VSAT companies, has contracted additional capacity on the NSS-7 satellite for its ‘iWay’ broadband via satellite services.
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Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd announced that it has finalised an agreement worth US$381 million with Astro All Asia Networks Plc’s subsidiary, Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd, for the utilisation of Ku-Band transponder capacity on the Measat-3 satellite.
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SES New Skies announced the launch of GSM backhaul services for Telikom Papua New Guinea on its NSS-5 satellite.
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RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. announced that the Soundtrack Channel has chosen to expand its contract with RRSat.
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AeroAstro announced that it successfully installed the next Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS) asset tracking satellite downlink decoder rack (applique) at a Globalstar ground gateway in Dubbo, New South Wales in Eastern Australia.
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SES New Skies announced that Impsat, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing, has contracted 90 MHz (equivalent to approximately 2.5 transponders at 36 MHz) on the company’s NSS-10 satellite at the orbital location of 37.5 degrees West.
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