Satnews Daily - Geostationary satellites will continue to dominate the commercial satellite market in terms of revenue growth and number of launches, according to research firm Euroconsult. Government launches will account for most of the market.
Euroconsult said that after 40 years, the commercial geostationary satellite industry is entering its fourth demand cycle with 28 communications satellites ordered in 2005 and 24 in 2005. The strong ordering activity in the past two years was driven by the replacement and expansion of existing operational orbital slots by companies such as SES and Eutelsat and by new entrants such as Kazsat, Vinasat, Hylas and Protostar. [ more ›› ]
(Vancouver, Canada) April 30th, 2007, 06:00 EST - Norsat International Inc. (TSX - NII.TO; OTC BB - NSATF.OB), a leading provider of intelligent satellite solutions, expects to report revenues of better than $4 million for the first quarter of 2007 based on preliminary, un-audited financial results. Norsat also expects to report earnings of better than $0.005 per share for the first quarter of 2007; and a combined cash and accounts receivable balance of approximately $3 million as at March 31, 2007.
Conference Call
Results for the first quarter are expected to be released on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007. Dr. Amiee Chan, president and chief executive officer, will also host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time) on Wednesday, May 15th, 2007 to discuss first quarter results. Interested parties may dial in at +1.800.525.6384 (or +1.780.409.1668). The conference ID number will be 7795527. [ more ›› ]
(Vancouver, Canada) April 27th 2007 - Norsat International Inc. (TSX - NII.TO; OTC BB - NSATF.OB), today announced that it has received multiple contracts totaling approximately US $1,000,000 for the company’s portable satellite systems and ancillary equipment from the United States Army. The systems will be used primarily to enable the transmission and reception of video, data and audio content from outside of the Continental United States.The entire order is expected to be shipped in the second quarter. [ more ›› ]
MIT is launching satellites about the size of a volleyball into space to see if they could one day help astronomers map the skies.
The first satellite in the SPHERES project (which stands for Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient Experimental Satellites) went up into space on a Russian rocket this week and is expected to arrive at the International Space Station around April 28. Two others will join it before the end of the year. [ more ›› ]
(PressZoom) - A pico-satellite developed by Boeing [NYSE: BA] to evaluate miniature spacecraft technologies was successfully launched to orbit on April 17 by an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Initial system checks indicate that the CubeSat TestBed 1 ( CSTB1 ) spacecraft is operational and ready for a series of on-orbit demonstrations that will help Boeing further develop nano-satellites weighing less than 22 pounds. [ more ›› ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission will take its first stab on Wednesday at defining how a 2007 auction of airwave spectrum will take place.
The agency plans to auction airwaves later this year that are being returned by television broadcasters as they move to digital signals early in 2009.
The sale is touted as the last opportunity for new players to enter the wireless market and is expected to raise billions of dollars. [ more ›› ]
A U.S. delegation to Africa apparently had to calm a whole list of fears - and dash a hope or two - when it explained its plan for establishing a new military command there.
“With every group we met with, there were a number of misconceptions, and I think the discussion changed quite a bit as we were able to correct some of those misconceptions,” Ryan Henry, the Defense Department’s deputy undersecretary for policy, said Monday.
Questions included why the U.S. was setting up the new Africa Command, how many troops would come, how much aid it would bring and so on. [ more ›› ]
BRINDISI, Italy, April 22 (Reuters) - Wars in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, a huge tsunami, earthquakes and famines — it has been a busy decade for the rescue business. So much so, the U.N. has decided to expand its emergency service. [ more ›› ]
As the shootings at Virginia Tech were occurring on Monday morning, Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal Albarghouti pulled out his cell phone and used it to capture video of police officers running toward Norris Hall. The footage Albarghouti captured is being called another indication that new technology has fundamentally altered news-gathering. [ more ›› ]
(Vancouver, Canada) April 17th, 2007 - Norsat International Inc. (TSX - NII.TO; OTC BB - NSATF.OB) announced today that it has unveiled its next-generation family of ultra-portable SNG (satellite news gathering) terminals - the Norsat GLOBETrekker SNG Terminal - at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) 2007, the world’s largest broadcast television exhibition.”Satellite terminals are typically a trade off between portability and performance. For Norsat to provide both in the GLOBETrekker, is a testament to their engineering ability,” said Tim Williams, managing director of UK-based SNG specialist, Sat-Comm Ltd. [ more ›› ]
