Month: August 2016

[Via Satellite 08-12-2016] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to conduct an architectural design study for a habitation system that would enable NASA astronauts to live for long...

There is an interesting new trend present in the maritime industry. Companies traditionally focused on the aero market, notably Panasonic Avionics and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), have made acquisitions

After much anticipation, the first full-fledged linear 4K Ultra-HD channels are up and running. The barrier of insufficient content is falling faster than it’s worth charting, now that producers are often

Evolving Priorities for Remotely Piloted, Unmanned Aircraft Some of the early adopters of high-throughput satellites in the defense arena will be users requiring increasingly smaller terminals such as unmanned

Nathan Jones was unfamiliar with the satellite industry before he became a part of it. As a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin, he works on the company’s space projects, and says that after starting, he

Over-The-Top (OTT) television has been little short of a phenomenon in recent years. Netflix, for example, was a company that almost no one had heard of a few years ago, yet now everyone around the world knows

[Via Satellite 08-11-2016] Scotland-based startup Orbital Access is designing a family of rockets to launch small payloads from the United Kingdom’s future spaceport, as well as other potential locations around...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2016] Thuraya Telecommunications has signed its first service agreement in Vietnam with VNPT VinaPhone making its land and maritime handsets available to the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2016] DigitalGlobe has received a follow-on contract to deploy its Geospatial Big Data Platform (GBDX) to map the man-made environment and provide easy access to the physical attributes...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2016] Northern Refrigerated Transportation has selected Orbcomm to provide telematics solutions for its fleet of refrigerated trailers. Northern Refrigerated is using Orbcomm’s cold chain telematics systems to track,...