Optus has announced that due to a court suppression order issued by the Supreme Court of Australia regarding broadcaster coverage of impending proceedings of a particular court case in Victoria, the ABC and any other media organization with national satellite programming coverage, has been forced to restrict the availability of their national service to viewers. What this means, for the duration of the suppression order, is that Aurora viewers will only be able to watch the ABC service applicable to the state in which they reside.

Arianespace has successfully launched
JCSAT-12 for Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT and Optus D3 destined to be co located with Optus C1 at 156 East.
The launch was made using the Ariane 5 launcher from French Guinea with a one hour launch window starting at 22:09GMT, (08:09 AEST). A replay of the succesful launch is viewable on the web at http://www.videocorner.tv/.
The Optus D3 satellite will allow a quite significant capacity increase for customers locatedin Australia and New Zealand with Pay TV provider Foxtel already announcing 20 additional services to be added to their platform by the end of …

Arianespace will launch two new satellites into orbit on the 21st of August, the launcher will carry JCSAT-12 for Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT and Optus D3 destined to be co located with Optus C1 at 156 East.

The launch will be made using the Ariane 5 launcher from French Guinea with a one hourlaunch window starting at 22:09GMT, (08:09 AEST). The launch will be viewable on the web at http://www.videocorner.tv/.
The Optus D3 satellite will allow a quite significant capacity increase for customers locatedin Australia and New Zealand with Pay TV provider Foxtel …

Hot on the heels of GeoEye 1 (see PSN Sept. & Oct 08) comes Worldview 2, promoted as the worlds technologically advanced, highest resolution space imaging satellite, capable of 8 band multispectral imaging. The satellite, which will become part of an existing constellation of 2 satellites will are already operated by Digital Globe Inc., a US imaging company based in Colorado.
The satellite will be capable of collecting 975,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, and by adopting a Sun synchronous orbit at an altitude of 770 kilometers, will have an …

Asia Broadcast Satellite has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) to manufacture the ABS-2 spacecraft to be co-located with ABS-1 at 75 degrees east longitude. The satellite is to be launched in 2012 from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 launcher.
ABS-2 will be the world’s most powerful commercial satellite ever launched in the Asia Pacific Region with 78 Ka, Ku and C band transponders, and a total output power capability of 14 kW. The satellite will be fueled for a service life of 15 years and will weigh over 6000kg at …