Bangalore: The morning of 3 May, Tuesday saw the start of the countdown for India’s twin satellites- the remote sensing 1560 kg. CARTOSAT-1 and the 42.5...
MUMBAI: APT Satellite Holdings Ltd, a leading satellite operator in the Asia Pacific region, announced the successful launch of the APSTAR VI satellite on 12 April...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching many satellites including Healthsat for tele-medicine. Also figuring in the list are OceanSat II, Radar Imaging Satellite,...
MUMBAI: Inmarsat has announced the successful launch of its first Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellite on board an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Weighing about...
MUMBAI: Space TV, the Tata Sons and Star group 80:20 joint venture for a DTH service in India is finally in sight, and action is hotting...
MUMBAI: The Middle East event Cable, Satellite, Broadcast & Communications Exhibition (Cabsat) kicks off in Dubai today 8 March. It is an annual showcase for the...
MUMBAI: Sirius Satellite Radio has entered into a deal with Microsoft to launch a video service for automobiles. The service is expected to launch in 2006....
BANGALORE: ISRO (The Indian Space Research Organisation) is planning to build a network of existing and new satellites – a regional constellation of existing and future...
MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organisation’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation and Malaysia’s Measat Global Bhd. have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company to pool...
MUMBAI: Equant has joined hands with Intelsat and iDirect Technologies to globally launch a set of fully managed, satellite-based, Wide Area Network (WAN) services. Three leading...
MUMBAI: US-based DirecTV has announced its plans for the launch of four next-generation satellites, on Wednesday. The first two satellites, Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2, will...
MUMBAI: Eutelsat has successfully launched Hispasat’s Amazona satellite, which marks the company’s ongoing expansion in America and Iberian Peninsula. Eutelsat, a satellite operator and the largest...
MUMBAI: Intelsat announced today that its IS-10-02 satellite was successfully launched aboard an ILS Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrone, Kazakhstan. The satellite is expected...
ATLANTA: Scientific-Atlanta (SA) has appointed George Stromeyer as its new vice president and managing director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The company supplies...
MUMBAI: The much delayed launch of India’s next generation communication satellite Insat 3E will finally see the light of day on 27 September. Arianespace, the launch...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s Binariang Satellite Systems has announced it will be using the Proton Breeze M launcher from International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of the...
VIRGINIA: International Launch Services (ILS) has announced a contract with Binariang Satellite Systems to launch the Measat-3 satellite in 2005. The mission will use the Russian-built...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite is now in its geostationary orbit. In the third and final stage...
MUMBAI: All systems go on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite. The satellite’s perigee (closest point to the earth) was raised...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Atlas 3B(AC -204), the two-stage rocket capable of lifting payloads of upto 4500 kgs carried an Asian communication satellite, Asiasat 4, in space...
MUMBAI: Insat-3A, which was launched by Ariane-5 of Arianespace yesterday from Kourou, French Guiana is now orbiting at 11,500 km above the earth’s surface. ...
COLORADO US: Level 3 Communications, an international communications and information services company and Panamsat have announced an agreement that will enable the latter to optimise the...
MUMBAI: The timing was certainly apt. As American-led forces marched into Baghdad, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp, which has made no bones about it’s unambiguous...
MUMBAI: Indian space agency ISRO has chosen Arianespace again to launch its INSAT 4A and INSAT 4B communications satellites. After today’s successful Ariane 5 mission that...
MUMBAI: A major milestone was crossed in India’s space programme today with the succesful launch of the multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite aboard the Arianespace’s Flight 160 rocket...
MUMBAI: The launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite aboard Arianespace’s Flight 160 has been delayed. According to Arianespace, the delay is a fallout...
MUMBAI: The countdown is on for the launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite. Early Wednesday Insat 3A will take off on board the...
MUMBAI: India’s latest satellite INSAT-3A, will be launched by the Ariane-5 vehicle of European Space Consortium Arianespace in the early hours of 9 April from Kourou...
PARIS: Eutelsat has announced that the latest addition to its fleet of broadcasting satellites Hot Bird 6 has entered into commercial service and is now beaming...
MUMBAI: India’s workhorse satellite launch vehicle, PSLV took off on schedule with its Metsat payload from the Sriharikota launch site in south India this afternoon. PSLV-C4...
WASHINGTON: At 2:44 am EDT on Friday, the Intelsat 906 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle. The satellite is expected to be operational...
Arianespace’s 10th mission of the year is scheduled for lift off today at the commercial satellite operator’s site in Kourou, French Guiana. The go-ahead was given...
LONDON: lntelsat has announced a tie up with ARTEL, the business solutions provider, for delivering satellite direct-to-home (DTH) services through the Armed Forces Radio and Television...
MUMBAI:Arianespace’s ninth mission of 2002, which will loft a dual satellite payload aboard an Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher is set to take off later today from...
MUMBAI:Thailand’s Shin Satellite PLc announced yesterday that India’s Department of Space (DoS) has extended the existing transponder leasing contract for seven C-band transponders on the Thaicom-3...
MUMBAI: Pakistan is gaining use of a defective Boeing 601 satellite and plans to use it to provide commercial telecommunications services starting in early 2003, spacenews.com...
MUMBAI: Panamsat, which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite, has introduced two new digital services designed to...
MUMBAI: EchoStar Communications Corp’s EchoStar VIII satellite is scheduled for launch on 20 August, two months after the originally scheduled launch date. The bird, to take...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced that its fourth satellite, AsiaSat 4 satellite will not launch this month, as scheduled earlier, due to manufacturing...
Another bird has gone up in the sky with its eye on the Indian market. Americom Asia-Pacific (AAP)’s GE-1A satellite was launched successfully yesterday by ILS...
Global satellite communications company New Skies Satellites has announced the completion of preparations for the launch of its high-powered NSS-7 Atlantic Ocean region satellite. The launch...
AsiaNet, a consortium of news organisations in the Asia Pacific region, has launched a website – http://www.asianetnews.net. The aim is to provide a regional resource primarily...
Satnews, the comprehensive resource centre covering the satellite, broadband and broadcasting industries, has released its 2002 international satellite directory. The directory, used by satellite professionals,...
India’s new multi-purpose geostationary satellite, Insat 3C, has reached its designated orbital slot at 74 degrees East longitude. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro),...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and GlobeCast have signed a new lease agreement for half of a 36 MHz C-band transponder on AsiaSat 2. GlobeCast...
There’s more in store for lovers of shooting stars. After last month’s spectacular Leonid meteor showers, the Geminid showers will make their way through Earth’s orbit,...
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Insat-3C satellite has reached Kourou, French Guiana, after its airlift from Bangalore on 3 December. The satellite has now been positioned...
An Ariane-5 solid rocket motor (MPS) was test fired on the booster teststand (BEAP) at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, under the Ariane-5...
The Indian Space research Organisation (ISRO) today successfully conducted the sixth flight of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C3, launching three satellites – Technology Experiment...
International satellite major Alcatel Spacecom and the European rocket launch agency Arianespace have cleared the decks to buy into the Subhash Chandra-promoted Agrani Satellite Services Ltd...

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