Satellite News

Ellipso was the name of one of the many broadband satellite constellations planned in the second half of the 90s. The plan collapsed, as most others, but Ellipso, Inc. still exists — and has now asked its patent counsel to investigate potential patent infringements by O3b Networks Limited.

India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), an autonomous society under Department of Space (DOS), has been converted into a full-fledged government organisation called National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).

United Space Alliance (USA), NASA’s prime Space Shuttle contractor, filed a lawsuit in Brevard County Circuit Court in Florida against Alliant Techsystems, Inc., and ATK Launch Systems, Inc.

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s US$3.3 billion purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc was formally approved with conditions by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Friday night.

The European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) welcomed an agreement achieved by EU ministers but warned that a new regulatory framework for electronic communications, currently debated in the European Parliament (EP), may “jeopardise the long-term stability of distribution of services provided by satellite operators.”

Elbit Systems Ltd., Israel, announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order dismissing the claim filed last year by certain minority shareholders of ImageSat International N.V.

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio confirmed they were in discussions with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to settle issues related to the compliance of certain radios that include FM transmitters.

A majority of commissioners at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has reached a deal to approve the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on its web site.