Month: April 2011

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-18-11] A number of catalysts developing in the next several months should propel Iridium Communications’ long-term financial outlook, according to Raymond James Analyst Chris Quilty, who predicts...

RapidEye has entered into an agreement with Canadian reseller Iunctus Geomatics to add the company to its distribution network and authorize Iunctus as a RapidEye product representative in the United...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration‘s (FAA) initiative to upgrade its air traffic control system and communications network over the next few years has given the satellite civil space sector a...

Albanian broadband provider Starsat’s focus over the next year is to bring the benefits of satellite data services to rural parts of Albania where there is no terrestrial infrastructure. The...

[Satellite News 04-18-11] Satellite pay-TV and telecom operators France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have established a joint venture that will oversee about $13 billion in combined annualized spending between the...

GeoEye’s $3.8 billion EnhancedView contract with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) helped the satellite imagery provider increase its 2010 revenues 22 percent from 2009 to $330.3 million, the company...

GeoScan is forming plans for a potential global Earth-observation network using hosted payloads on Iridium’s next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium Next, the mobile satellite service provider announced March 16.     This...

Hughes Network Systems is supporting the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics competition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., the company announced...

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has launched its 2011 European Satellite Navigation competition for the Taiwanese region, ITRI announced March 25.     The institute said the competition would focus...

Raytheon won a $177 million contract modification with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue deployment of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) under the administration’s terminal automation...