WBMSAT Satellite Industry News Bits 05/07/2010
FCC plans to reclassify broadband service as a telecommunications service in order to reassert its authority after U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against FCC in case brought by Comcast.
[cnet news – 05/07/2010]
Hughes engages Arianespace to launch its powerful Ka-band satellite Jupiter in the first half of 2012.
[SatNews – 05/07/2010]
SES closes acquisition of ProtoStar 2 satellite which it won at auction in December and renames it SES-7.
{Satellite Today – 05/07/2010]
Intelsat contracts ILS to launch Intelsat 22 in 2012.
[Satellite Today – 05/06/2010]
Globalstar announces timetable for upcoming launch of its 2G satellite constellation.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
SatMAX to provide satellite communications repeater system to Lockheed Martin for the Lockheed Martin Airdock in Akron OH.
[marketwire – 05/06/2010]
CapRock secures 60 month contract with Diamiemos Shipping Corporation of Greece for nine C-band shipboard terminals.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
Comtech subsidiary Xicom receives $3.4m contract from Navy for ruggedized Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers to be fitted to existing systems and provide improved Ka-band access to the new WGS satellites.
[Market Watch – 05/06/2010]
GeoEye signs multi-year multi-million dollar order with Russian reseller, ScanEx Research and Development Center for high-resolution satellite imagery.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
Australian government releases $25M National Broadband Network study which concludes the government’s objectives can be implemented within original $43B estimate, mixing fibre, wireless, and satellite technologies.
[Network World – 05/06/2010]
XTAR remembers William R. Schmidt, who passed away April 28.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
Eutelsat and Euro1080 enter exclusive partnership to enrich content of Eutelsat’s 3D channel, broadcast across Europe via EUROBIRD 9A.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
ORBCOMM commences construction of Gateway Earth Station in Hartebeesthoek, South Africa.
[SatNews – 05/06/2010]
"Zombiesat" Galaxy 15, owned by Intelsat, resists attempts by manufacturer Orbital Sciences to force it to shut down – Galaxy threatens to interfere with SES WORLDSKIES AMC-11 satellite around May 23.
[Space.com – 05/05/2010]
[Fox News – 05/03/2010]
Arqiva supplies Sky News with extensive Satellite News Gathering services to support coverage of the UK general election.
[SatNews – 05/05/2010]
Hughes’ large all Ka-band satellite Jupiter to be launched by Ariane 5 in deal backed by France’s Coface export-credit agency.
[Space News – 05/05/2010]
Globecomm Systems becomes most recent member of the Satellite Industry Association.
[SatNews – 05/05/2010]
Vizada Networks and Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation expand existing co-operation with Framework Agreement for supply of commercial satellite capacity and services.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
Aerojet and Florida Turbine Technologies enter into strategic partnership to compete for R&D and production on NASA’s new hydrocarbon engine and advanced upper stage engine.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
NASA and DARPA ask for proposals to enhance small satellite experiments on the International Space Station.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
Slovak Telekom’s Magio TV launches satellite TV service on Spacecom’s AMOS-3 satellite.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
MTN Satellite Communications is selected by Singapore-based Goodwood Ship Management to provide ship-board C-band VSAT services.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
OHB-System AG is awarded contracts under Europeanization of Satellite-Based Reconnaissance program for operation of French and German ground stations.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
C-COM Satellite systems delivers initial quantity of iNetVu Mobile antenna systems to Malaysia based reseller Numix-Engineering SDN GHD for deployment by Post Malaysia for mobile post offices.
[SatNews – 05/04/2010]
NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites help NOAA track expanding oil spill in from exploded BP rig in Gulf of Mexico.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Lockheed Martin delivers cutting-edge communications system module for second satellite in U.S. Navy’s UHF satellite MUOS program.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Thales Alenia Space to build Apstar 7B for $148.7M.
[Satellite Today – 05/03/2010]
Singapore Telecommunications will launch Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro satellite phone to enhance communications in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
German radar satellite TanDEM-X proves its suitability in program for 3D mapping of earth from space.
[SatNews – 05/03./2010]
PAC Tel International announces successful implementation of large satellite IP trunk linking two French overseas territories of Wallis and Futuna to international IP backbone via Australia.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Comtech EF Data gets $4.8M SATCOM equipment order from leading telecommunications service provider in Asia.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Inmarsat introduces new class of SwiftBroadband service, SwiftBroadband 200, designed to extend cost effective Inmarsat services to smaller aircraft.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Sirius XM satellite radio resists FCC plan to make it easier for wireless internet companies to use frequencies that Sirius believes could cause interference to its signals.
[Wall Street Journal – 05/03/2010]
GeoEye busily builds next satellite while waiting for major contract decision by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
[Washington Post – 05/03/2010]
ND SatCom, and SES ASTRA company, launches new global "Valued Partner Program" aimed at resellers of its satellite router brand SkyWAN.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
Cinedigm Digital Cinema plans to more than double its SatCinema network of satellite-enables theatre locations across U.S. by deploying additional 300 sites by end of 2010.
[SatNews – 05/03/2010]
RRSAT is appointed by Inmarsat as distribution partner for its Global Satellite Phone Services.
[PR Newswire – 05/03/2010]
Speculators think T-Mobile might become wholesale customer for nationwide satellite LTE network being funded by Harbinger Capital Partners.
[connected planet – 05/04/2010]
