Year: 2016

[Via Satellite 12-19-2016] A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket carrying Hughes Network Systems’ EchoStar 19 satellite successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida on...

[Via Satellite 12-19-2016] Thuraya has supplied books for classrooms in Lebanon, where displaced Syrian children are being helped to return to structured school life. The telecommunications company is supporting the...

[Via Satellite 12-19-2016] ViaSat and Boeing announced today that Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the first two ViaSat 3 class satellites was completed on November 16. Concluding PDR is the...

[Via Satellite 12-19-2016] SES has signed a capacity deal with 1+1 Media Group, one of the largest media holdings in Ukraine. The long-term agreement is for the lease of one...

[Via Satellite 12-15-2016] Swiss start-up ELSE has raised more than $4 million in funding, putting the company on track to launch two demonstration nanosatellites in the fourth quarter of 2017,...

[Via Satellite 12-16-2016] The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has named the winners of its additive manufacturing GrabCAD design challenge, the 3-2-1 Liftoff! ULA Rocket Hardware Challenge. The challenge asked participants...

[Via Satellite 12-16-2016] EchoStar Mobile, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, has selected Bentley Walker as the first European-wide distributor for its new satellite-based network that will provide IP-based Mobile Satellite...

[Via Satellite 12-16-2016] Eutelsat Communications has appointed Sandrine Teran as group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the executive committee. She will join Eutelsat on Jan. 9, 2017. Teran...

[Via Satellite 12-16-2016] O3b Networks struck an agreement with Digicel to boost broadband capacity to support the Green Climate Fund (GCF) convention and board meeting held in Apia, Samoa from...

[Via Satellite 12-15-2016] Despite glitches and delays, land-based mobility in the satellite market will generate $18.1 billion in revenue over the next decade, Northern Sky Research‘s (NSR) newly released “Land-Mobile...