Year: 2014

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] Millicom, owner of the Tigo brand, has set its sights on Latin America as a top growth market. The company has been aggressively expanding across the region...

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] The United States Air Force awarded a $1.86 billion fixed-price contract to Lockheed Martin to complete production of the fifth and sixth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites...

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] Hughes Network Systems released Hughes Emergency Solutions for enterprise and government customers to prepare for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, 2014....

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] Northrop Grumman’s protected communications payload for the U.S. Air Force’s third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite successfully completed on orbit testing ahead of schedule. The AEHF...

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] GeoNorth became the first client to purchase a multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station (DRS) from Airbus Defense and Space. The DRS will give access to both high-resolution and...

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] Yahsat, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based satellite operator, announced the launch schedule of its third satellite for 2016 to extend the operator’s Ka-band coverage to 17...

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] ASC Signal Corporation was selected by government and commercial customers to deliver 115 Ka-band gateways and large antennas systems over the course of the past six months....

[Via Satellite 06-26-2014] Dauria Aerospace successfully launched two Perseus M spacecraft into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on June 19, 2014 aboard a Kosmotras Dnepr rocket. These two satellites will co-locate...

[Via Satellite 06-25-2014] AT&T President and CEO Randall Stephenson and DirecTV Chairman and CEO Michael White presented before Congress on June 24, 2014, to explain their desire to merge into...

[Via Satellite 06-25-2014] Avanti Communications signed a new contract with European telecommunications operator Intermatica to help the company target enterprise customers with a range of new business applications using Avanti’s...