Satellite News

The European Commission has proposed funding the troubled multi-billion-euro satellite navigation project Galileo wholly from unused EU funds, rather than with money from private industry or member states.

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.

Industry Canada has approved the acquisition of Telesat Canada by Loral Space & Communications Inc. and its Canadian partner, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments).

The European Commission is to propose on 19 September where the EUR2.4 billion shortfall in funding for the Galileo GPS satellite system will come from. Meanwhile, Eutelsat has offered to manage the navigation system’s space segment.

The European Union wants to let companies providing mobile satellite-based services (MSS) get one EU-wide license and avoid applying for authorisation in each member country.

The European Commission has cleared the planned US$400 million acquisition of Norway’s Telenor Satellite Services by private equity group Apax Partners.

The International Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission determined that Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC (MSV) has met the beginning physical milestone associated with the authorisation for the construction of the MSV-1 satellite.

Harris Corp. has filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the Navy’s award of the potential billion-dollar Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) contract to Raytheon.
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