SES signed a signed agreement with Intersat Africa, a provider of satellite-based Internet services, to expand the reach of its satellite-based Astra2Connect broadband service to Africa, SES announced Sept. 11 The service will start in January 2010 and will be offered to households, small ...

Orbcomm and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2014, the two companies announced Sept. 3. SpaceX said it plans to launch the second-...

Turkish satellite telecommunications and cable TV service provider Türksat is accepting bids on a new satellite it intends to launch and begin using by 2011, zkan Dalbay, the company's general manager, has said. Speaking to the Anatolia news agency last Friday, Dalbay said the company will send...

Planetsky has introduced VelocitySAT, the company's new satellite communications portfolio and service offering, Planetsky announced Aug. 21. The VelocitySAT portfolio aims to offer cellular and PSTN/PTT backhaul, VoIP, IP backbone, broadcasting, VPNs, virtual DSL, disaster recovery ...

The Ukrainian National Space Agency will launch the Sich-2 land remote sensing satellite in April 2010, the organization announced Aug. 14. A Ukrainian Dnepr rocket will loft the remote sensing satellite to an orbit of 688 kilometers. The agency also signed an agreement of cooperation with ...

Norsat International Inc. appointed Amiee Chan, Norsat’s president and CEO, to its board, the company announced Aug. 6. “On behalf of the board, I believe this is a well deserved appointment, as her vision and expertise in satellite communications have driven product line expansion, ...

Eutelsat increased its yearly revenues by more than 7 percent to 940.5 million euros ($1.3 billion) at the end of June, compared to 877.8 million euros ($1.2 billion) in the previous year, according to the company’s year-end financial reports released July 31. Eutelsat reduced its net ...

Russia has launched a secret military satellite and a civilian search and rescue satellite aboard a Kosmos 3M rocket launched July 21, according to a July 22 report from Novosti News Agency. The two-stage rocket, which launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 11:57 p.m. EDT...

VISLINK’s Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LE&PS) business unit received an order valued at over $1.5 million to provide strategic video surveillance services for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. VISLINK will work with its partners Zeiss and Telemedia to supply the South African ...

General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Office to support the U.S. Air Force Air Defense Communications Service 2 program. The contract covers one base year with four option years and has a total potential value of ...