http://www.satellitetoday.com Satellite Today en-us 2012 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 8:52:29 EST Comtech EF Data Wins Mobile Backhaul Contract in Latin America Comtech EF Data was awarded a $4.1 million contract to provide satellite communications equipment supporting mobile backhaul network expansion to an unnamed telecommunications operator in Latin America. Comtech EF Data said the contract included... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/38193.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Arianespace Inks DirecTV Latin America Satellite Launch Deal U.S. Pay-TV operator DirecTV exercised an option in its multi-launch contract with Arianespace to include a mission to send a new DirecTV Latin America service-providing satellite into orbit. Arianespace will orbit the new spacecraft in 2014 on an... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/38042.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST Arianespace Grabs Optus 10 Launch Deal Australian satellite operator Optus has selected Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket to launch its new Optus 10 spacecraft into geostationary transfer orbit in the middle of 2013 from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Optus 10 will be the sixth satellite launched by... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/37907.html Thu, 1 Dec 2011 0:00:00 EST Northrop Grumman Distributes Inmarsat BGAN Services Northrop Grumman has entered into a network distribution partnership agreement with Inmarsat Commercial Satellite Services, Northrop Grumman announced. As part of the agreement, Northrop Grumman will distribute... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/37693.html Tue, 1 Nov 2011 0:00:00 EDT Eutelsat Inks Ka-Sat Tooway Deal with Egpytian VSAT Provider Eutelsat and its Skylogic subsidiary have signed a six-year, 20 million euro ($29 million) distribution agreement with Egyptian VSAT provider Egyptsat, which will enable the company to use Eutelsat’s Tooway satellite service via the Ka-Sat... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/37528.html Sat, 1 Oct 2011 0:00:00 EDT Comtech Mobile Datacom Inks U.S. Army MTS Program Contract Comtech Mobile Datacom has received an initial funded order totaling $4.6 million to support the U.S. Army’s Movement Tracking System (MTS) program, the company announced July 15. The order provides partial funding for the continued supply of... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/37305.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT Integral Systems Europe Awarded Asiasat contract Integral Systems Europe (ISE UK) has been awarded a contract by AsiaSat to upgrade two satellite terminals at its Tai Po Earth Station. Construction work for the expansion of the Earth station will be completed in early 2012. When complete, the new system aims... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/37156.html Mon, 1 Aug 2011 0:00:00 EDT ABS Gains $215 Million in Bank Financing Asia Broadcast Satellite has secured $215 million in new funding. It has closed a $215 million five-year senior bank loan from a financial consortium comprising Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING, Société Générale and Standard Chartered Bank. The... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/36982.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT Advantech Wireless Selected by Hoje Telecom for VSAT Upgrade Advantech Wireless signed a contract with Hoje Telecom of Brazil to provide a VSAT upgrade hub, RF equipment and more than 1,000 remote terminals. By 2014, Internet penetration in Brazil is expected to increase by 79 percent from 2009, and Hoje... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/36709.html Wed, 1 Jun 2011 0:00:00 EDT EMS Technologies Wins Iridium Next Hardware Contract EMS Technologies’ Defense and Space Division has been contracted by Iridium’s prime contractor Thales Alenia Space to provide L-band communications hardware for the Iridium Next constellation. The five-year production award will see EMS... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/industry/contracts/36644.html Sun, 1 May 2011 0:00:00 EDT