Satellite News

Thailand’s Council for National Security (CNS) chairman Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin said he wished to take back control of Thai satellites operated by Shin Satellite, which was sold to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings in a politically controversial deal.

Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,174,127 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The ‘127 patent is the eighteenth patent to issue to MSV relating to the company’s satellite- terrestrial hybrid system including Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology.

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited announced that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted ICO’s request for milestone extensions in connection with the construction and launch of ICO G1, the company’s geostationary satellite for ICO North America that is to provide 2 GHz mobile satellite service (MSS).

Loral Space & Communications Inc. has won a jury verdict in the Supreme Court for the State of New York, USA, in its contract action against Rainbow DBS Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation.

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,155,340 (the ‘340 Patent) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Indonesia and Malaysia are holding discussions on an agreement that would grant reciprocal landing rights for the two countries’ satellites.

Canadian companies will not participate in the construction of ESA’s ExoMars rover, CBC News reported. The Canadian government has turned down a request by the country’s space industry to support an ExoMars contract, the report said.

The TANGO (Telecommunications Advanced Networks for GMES Operations) project led by Astrium Satellites has been selected for co-funding by the European Commission.