Satellite News

Wegener Corporation has been granted two U.S. patents for techniques designed to improve the quality and efficiency of satellite media distribution networks.

The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed the European Union’s 2008 budget worth EUR120.3 billion, including extra funding for the Galileo satellite navigation network.

European Union transport ministers today reached unanimous agreement to go ahead with the Galileo satellite navigation project, after allaying concerns from Spain.

Spain is blocking a deal on dividing up contracts on the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation project as it seeks a key role in the project, European sources said according to news reports.

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has waived a requirement that Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) build a ground-based spare satellite.

The European Union’s troubled Galileo satellite navigation system will be financed from leftover EU funds, most of them originally earmarked for agriculture, finance ministers decided.

The European Commission confirmed reports it had proposed a new tendering process for its Galileo satellite navigation system which would prevent any one company from having a dominant share of the work.

At the conclusion of the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), major satellite operators said that their campaign to protect the C-band from interference from mobile communications services had been successful.