From Kanwa Defense Review Monthly, reported by Jeff Chen and edited by Andrei Chang, comes a report focusing on China's recent sales of communication satellites to Nigeria, Pakistan, and Venezuela. These satellites are equipped with C- and Ku-band transmitters and have an estimated life span ...

The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle has signed an agreement with SES Americom-New Skies for capacity aboard their Digital C platform. Deutsche Welle will use 4.5 Mbps of capacity on AMC-1 to deliver programming to US cable headends for its German, Spanish and English-speaking ...

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will launch Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd’s (ATSB) RazakSat satellite on a Falcon 1 rocket during a launch window that opens at 7 p.m. EDT April 20, SpaceX announced March 30.RazakSat, designed and built by Malaysia-basd ATSB, carries a high-resolution ...

Malaysia shipped their new RazakSAT satellite from the Royal Malaysian Air Force Subang airfield last Saturday to Kwajalein Island in the Republic of Marshall Islands, where the satellite will be launched on April 21st. The images from RazakSAT, Malaysia’s first home-grown remote sensing ...

Space shuttle Discovery cleared the launch tower and traced a brilliant arc of white and orange flames through the dusky-night sky on its way to orbit. The twin solid rocket boosters burnout occurred shortly thereafter and fell away as Discovery continued its climb, powered by its three main ...

Thuraya Telecommunications, is sharing their latest accomplishment at this week’s CABSAT MENA 2009, where it is showcasing the world’s first satellite solution offering streaming speeds of up to 384kbps. From the 3rd to the 5th of March, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) has announced that the Telstar 11N satellite built for Telesat is performing post launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite's solar arrays deployed on schedule several hours after separation ...

Much activity is taking place as Arianespace's development of its commercial launcher family gains new momentum at the Spaceport in French Guiana to support the sustained mission rate for heavy-lift Ariane 5, and to prepare for future missions of the medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega ...

A defunct Russian satellite collided with an Iridium satellite resulting in the destruction of both spacecraft, Iridium announced Feb. 12. The collision occurred above Siberia at 4:55 p.m. GMT on Feb 11. The Russian satellite involved was a Cosmos telecom spacecraft launched in...

The Werth family has provided the following obituary for Andrew Werth, who passed away on January 28th in Washington, D.C. The family has provided the photos included in this all-too-brief life summary of a much beloved and true leader in our industry who was an early satellite digital technology...