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SES Astra contracts Five for additional capacity
SES ASTRA has announced that it has signed a new transponder contract with the British commercial TV broadcaster Five. The additional capacity will primarily be used for the company’s two new channels – Five Life and Five US – which will be launched in October. The broadcaster will initially take half of a transponder at the orbital position 28.2° East and ramp up to a full transponder in the second half of 2007...

Shin Satellite's sales of user terminals reaches 50,000 in Asia-Pacific
IPSTAR Australia Pty Ltd. (IPA), a fully owned subsidiary of Shin Satellite Plc.—Asia’s leading satellite operator—announced that it has achieved a deployment rate of 1,000 subscribers per month in Australia since August and is expecting to reach 2,000 new subscribers per month by the end of this year. This brings the total number of satellite user terminals provided by Shin Satellite to over 50,000 in the Asia-Pacific Region...

Boeing completes last round of Critical Wideband Gapfiller Satellite Tests
The Boeing Company has completed Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum (SCTV) testing for the first of its Wideband Gapfiller Satellites (WGS). The tests, conducted at the Boeing Satellite Development Center in El Segundo, Calif., evaluated the WGS operating systems' ability to withstand the extreme temperatures of space...

SES ASTRA TechCom to deliver antennas and training for satellite VINASAT-1
SES ASTRA announced that its subsidiary SES ASTRA TechCom has been selected to participate in Vietnam`s first public satellite project VINASAT-1...

Russian Chinese sub-comission on communications
On the 11th - 12th of September 2006 the 5th Session of the Russian Chinese sub-commission on communications and information technologies took place in the city of Sochi (Russia). The Russian delegation was headed by Leonid Reiman, the Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, the Chinese delegation was headed by Wang Xudong, the Minister of Information Industry...

Helios IIB is the latest defense satellite entrusted to Ariane 5 for launch
Following approval by French defense procurement agency DGA, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Yannick d'Escatha, President of French space agency CNES, signed the launch contract for the Helios IIB military satellite. The contract was signed during the European space, defense and security symposium jointly organized by the Western European Union and the European Interparliamentary Commission on Space...

Boeings workhorse Delta II delivers another GPS satellite to orbit
The reliable Boeing Delta II launch vehicle, known as the workhorse of the launch industry in its payload class, successfully delivered to orbit a replenishment Block IIR Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force...

Intelsat reports anomaly on Intelsat 802 Satellite
Intelsat, Ltd. announced that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33° E, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly on September 21, 2006, at approximately 8:27 p.m. E.T...

Initiative aims at improving education infrastructure in developing countries
SES GLOBAL announces that its operating companies SES ASTRA and SES AMERICOM will support the worldwide non-profit initiative “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC). The initiative aims at improving the communication and education infrastructure in developing countries by launching a low cost, web-connected laptop. It is supported by leading international players in the hard- and software industry...

Peter Jackson voted - Satellite Executive of the Year in Asia Pacific
Peter Jackson, Chief Executive Officer of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) was voted the ‘Satellite Executive of the Year in Asia Pacific’, by the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) at the 2006 APSCC Awards Ceremony held in Seoul, Korea on 27th September...

Radyne Elects William C. Keiper and Carl Myron Wagner to Board
On September 26, 2006 Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN) announced that their Board of Directors elected William C. Keiper and Carl Myron Wagner to join as new members. Their election will expand the Board to seven members. Mr. Keiper will also join the Board's Audit Committee...

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The $20 Billion Question: Can Satellite and Terrestrial Wireless Co-Exist in C-band?
You and your colleagues are invited to attend this high-level Summit, which will address an issue of unprecedented importance to the communications industry: Throughout the world, fixed and mobile satellite services are reportedly being severely disrupted by interference from new services such as Wi-Max and Broadband Wireless Access in the "extended" C-band frequencies of 3.4 to 3.7 GHz. If national and inter-governmental organizations fail to address this alarming trend, the satellite industry may be prevented from delivering users with FSS and MSS services for voice, data and video services in Developed and Developing Countries...

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