Year: 2014

The shopping district of Al Satwa features great local shops and cafes as well as some history. Union House, the birthplace of the UAE, is located in Al Satwa and houses the largest UAE flag. Photo: Definitely

Inmarsat Appoints RRsat as Distribution Partner for Israeli Government and Defense Inmarsat appointed Station711, the MSS arm of RRsat Global Communications Network, as a Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Distribution...

Australian Defense Force Selects ViaSat Terminal for Data Link Network Management Australia’s Joint Project 2089Ph2A Tactical Information Exchange (TIE), has selected ViaSat to provide the Small Tactical Terminal (STT) KOR...

Aireon Signs New Investors in Europe, Gains $120M in Equity Aireon has entered into binding agreements with three new investors and major Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs): ENAV (Italy), the...

Thales Alenia Space to Provide Government Satcom System to Brazil Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Visiona (a joint venture between Embraer and Telebras) for the Geostationary Defense...

Orbcomm and Hub Group Launch Container Tracking and Monitoring Solution Orbcomm has signed a multi-year agreement with Hub Group to deploy Orbcomm’s GT 2300 intermodal container tracking and monitoring platform....

Certainly, 2013 was a momentous year for the satellite industry with many highlights such as O3b finally launching its first satellites, Eutelsat and Arabsat making major acquisitions, the launch of...

“At least we still have a satellite,” said Martin Halliwell, CTO of SES, somewhat ruefully, after the first of two launch scrubs of the company’s SES 8 satellite. While he has attended more than 20

[Via Satellite 01-17-2014] Ed Spitler, president of Astrium Services Government (now part of the Airbus group) had one main point to get across at the Washington Space Business Roundtable: Lowest...

[Via Satellite 01-17-2014] ITC Global has named Jean-Michel Rouylou as its new executive vice president of Americas and Maritime Solutions. “[Rouylou] has been instrumental in the growth of our maritime...