After a 48-hour delay caused by local technicians going on strike, the Arianespace mission to launch Arabsat 5C and SES-2 was successfully carried out late on the night of September 21/22. The flight was the 5th launch this year for the giant Ariane 5 rocket, and its two passengers were successfully placed into a geostationary […]

Only a few days after GlobeCast confirmed it had added the Tecnopolo Tiburtino, Rome, technical facility and Earth Station to its list of uplink assets comes news that it is in advanced negotiations to buy Amman’s Jordan Media City from Sheikh Salah Kamel. The rumoured price is around $150 million, although this figure has not […]

SES has confirmed that the launch of its new SES-2 satellite has been postponed as the result of industrial action at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana. The Trade Union of French Guiana Workers (UTG) initiated a strike within the Telespazio company making unavailable certain means of measurement in the Space Centre which are […]

Altech Multimedia, part of the Allied Technologies Limited (Altech) group, looks back at a very successful IBC 2011. With its newly established European office as well as the company’s recent acquisition of SetOne, a distribution, logistics, STB repair and servicing business focused on the DVB based retail business in the Central Europe, Altech Multimedia  is […]

SES continues to find enthusiastic takers for its spare transponder capacity at 19.2 degrees East. SES says that Österreichischer Rundfunksender (ORS), which is the technical service provider for Austrian public broadcaster ORF and other channels, has contracted an additional transponder on SES’s prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East. The additional transponder is the fourth that […]

GlobeCast has added the Tecnopolo Tiburtino technical facility and Earth Station to its list of uplink assets. Tecnopolo replaces GlobeCast’s previous facility in the region. Commercial terms were not revealed. GlobeCast’s new teleport will offer content management and distribution services via satellite and fiber — notably addressing the growing DTH and DTT markets in the […]

GlobeCast has announced the launch of a new teleport and technical operations center in Rome to replace its previous facility. A major new addition to the media infrastructure for Italy, the teleport will offer content management and distribution services via satellite and fiber — notably addressing the growing DTH and DTT markets in the region […]

Russia’s important Express-AM4 satellite has seemingly been found. There’s also a full investigation into what went wrong with the launch. International Launch Services (ILS), which markets the Proton rocket-launch system to international customers, says that the Proton-M rocket “operated nominally” which is a coded phrase for everything going according to plan. It was the Briz-M […]

A giant Proton-M rocket had what seemed to be a successful lift-off late on Wednesday night in order to place into orbit a massive Russian satellite, Ekspress-AM4, and needed to help roll out the nation’s digital terrestrial TV system. But the launch went catastrophically wrong, and the satellite has seemingly been lost. Moreover, there will […]

Satellite operations provider EchoStar is to start shutting down its satellite-based IPTV delivery service, ViP-TV, at the beginning of September, ending completely at the end of the month. The company will work with customers on a case-by-case basis to help them migrate to either a different service or to a competitor. EchoStar entered the MPEG-4 […]