Year: 2014

[Via Satellite 11-05-201] Airbus Defence and Space has doubled its satellite capacity to provide increased throughput and service availability for yacht owners transiting back to the Caribbean from the summer […]

[Via Satellite 11-05-201] COM DEV International, a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, has been awarded a fully-funded contract valued at approximately $6 million to deliver Ku-band equipment — including multiplexers, […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] Iridium reported total revenue of $107.5 million for the third-quarter of 2014, surpassing the expectations of most analysts. The company also replaced two satellites with in-orbit spares […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] Speedy Hire, a tools, equipment, plant hire, and services company in the United Kingdom has selected Avanti Communications’ Hylas 1 Ka-band satellite for high speed broadband solutions. […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] Communications & Power Industries (CPI) Malibu Division has received an award worth more than $5 million for additional Ku-band Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) antenna ground terminals. […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] NanoRacks has opened a new office at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The West Coast location will help the company meet customer needs and […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] Outernet, a satellite startup company with a mission to broadcast free information via satellite to any Wi-Fi-enabled device, has signed a letter of intent to use Mishaal […]

[Via Satellite 11-04-2014] SES Government Solutions (SES GS) has selected Eutelsat Communications’ U.S. subsidiary Eutelsat America to provide satellite capacity for U.S. Africa Command. SES GS has a five-year Pathfinder […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) needs more time to understand the potential impact of disaggregating large satellites into multiple smaller spacecraft, according to the U.S. Government […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] Despite significant growth in terrestrial Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Everything (IoT) communications, satellite is expected to hold a significant niche, according to NSR. In the research […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] Inmarsat has backed the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITUs) decision to place spectrum allocations for global flight tracking on the agenda for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15). […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] Airtel Africa has partnered with Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) provider Thuraya to launch products and services from the company in 12 African countries. These products include the […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] KVH Industries has been awarded a $4.3 million contract from a large defense contractor customer for TacNav navigational systems. The new customer has a short delivery requirement, […]

[Via Satellite 11-03-2014] After seeing 20 percent year over year growth in serving oil and gas vessels, MTN communications is establishing a business development and technical team in Houston, Texas. […]

[Via Satellite 10-31-2014] Canadian satellite operator Telesat is planning a replacement satellite for Telstar 18 that might include a high throughput component. Telesat 18 entered service in August 2004 and […]

[Via Satellite 10-31-2014] Euroconsult predicts the growth of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems will see use climb from 107 Gbps in 2014 to just above 1,300 Gbps in 2023. This […]

[Via Satellite 10-31-2014] Gilat Satellite Networks has deployed a CellEdge small cell over satellite solution to 20 sites in the rural region of Paraná, Brazil. The installation, completed in only […]

[Via Satellite 10-31-2014] The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has passed a resolution at the Plenipotentiary Conference today to consider global flight tracking in its World Radiocommunication Conference in 2015 (WRC-15) […]

[Via Satellite 10-30-2014] Harris Corporation has delivered Aireon’s first flight payload for integration into Iridium NEXT satellites. This is the first of 81 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver payloads that […]

[Via Satellite 10-31-2014] SSL has been selected by an undisclosed customer to manufacture a communications satellite on the SSL 1300 satellite platform. SSL is also tasked with procuring a launch […]

They may not be sexy or anything that consumers pay much attention to, but recent changes to satellite antennas are helping the industry expand its services, lower prices, improve efficiency, and open doors

SSPA versus TWTA: Is There Room for Both?RF amplifiers are the pulmonary systems of satellite networks pumping out RF energy, the electromagnetic lifeblood that allows earth stations to communicate with

Corporate Market One of the key battlegrounds for low cost airlines now is the corporate market. More and more, these airlines want to attract business people to their flights. “Nok Air has always been

One of the key advantages of the VSAT business is its ability to rapidly react and adapt to change. This has become very apparent over the past couple of years, which has seen the industry suffer from the

In the six months to May 2014, more than 90 small satellites were launched, representing investment by 18 countries. We are seeing a huge growth in the use of and […]

Visit the historic Fort McHenry where American troops stopped a British invasion in 1812, which inspired what would become the national anthem of the U.S. Photo: National Park Service Located at an old railway

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South Africa A Wi-Fi telecommunications company, WirelessG, based in South Africa, has launched what it claims is a “world first” mobile service where a customer who purchases a 3G/4G data bundle on the

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