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Inmarsat global mobile satellite services operator and ACeS International Limited, an Asian hand-held voice satellite services operator, today announced collaboration arrangements to offer low-cost, hand-held and fixed-voice services in the […]

Boeing Co., General Dynamics and four small businesses won the U.S. Army’s five-year, $5 billion worldwide satellite systems contract. DataPath of Duluth, Ga.; D&SCI of Eatontown, N.J.; Globecomm Systems of […]

Alexander Jeuck has been named president of ND Satcom-Abu Dhabi. An SES Astra company and global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, ND Satcom-Abu Dhabi provides government, defense and broadcast communications […]

Tandberg Television today announced that MyNetworkTV, a new primetime network with 167 affiliates representing 96 percent of American television households, has chosen it to provide both high- and standard-definition MPEG-2 […]

European Satellite Link GmbH (ESL) acquired marine and land mobile satcoms specialist Hanika ESS GmbH in an Aug. 31 deal. ESL is a Nera Satcom products and service source in […]

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and European satellite manufacturer Astrium GmbH signed an Aug. 30 contract for building the TanDEM-X satellite. Due to launch in 2009 for a five-year operation, […]

Lockheed Martin announced today that Marshall Byrd has been appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Space Systems. He succeeds Ted Gavrilis, retired after 36 years at Lockheed […]

France’s Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry approved a deal that will consolidate the country’s two satellite-TV providers – Canalsat and TPS into a single unit. In December, Vivendi […]

NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to lead the design, development and construction of the agency’s next-generation crew vehicle, NASA announced Aug. 31. Lockheed Martin will be the […]

Alcatel Alenia Space has been boosted by the news that Eutelsat will retain it for the design, manufacturing, assembling, tests and on-ground delivery of the W2A satellite. Scheduled for launch […]

In the early 1900s, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. George Squier invented a system that allowed the transmission of multiple radio signals along the outside of electrical and telephone lines. In […]

An increasing number of organizations are discovering that the only way to guarantee their communication systems stay online during times of crisis is to employ satellite backup systems to their […]

When a corporation has multiple projects underway simultaneously, and those projects are spread out around the globe, having an advanced network in place that can disseminate a wide range of […]

Recently, during a flooding episode, a business owner was able to document the damage through video surveillance. The camera captured rising floodwaters destroying inventory, office furniture, files and proprietary information […]

Several years ago, Datatel, a provider of information management solutions for colleges and universities in Fairfax, Va., created a satellite-enabled intranet for its workforce. Initially, the technology, which acts as […]

SES Astra named its new digital satellite infrastructure in Europe Entavio, the company announced Aug. 31. Entavio is intended to provide European viewers in German-speaking regions a broader variety of […]

Iridium Satellite and Raytheon’s JPS Communications have announced a joint marketing initiative to provide first responders a fully interoperable communications service for use in disaster recovery operations. The companies are […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Aug. 29 that its Germantown, Md.-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received orders valued at $4.3 million under its Movement Tracking System contract with the U.S. […]

L-3 Communications announced that its Telemetry-West division won a $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide next-generation encryption services for satellite telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C). The […]

Intelsat secured rights through the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency to offer communications services throughout Brazil, Intelsat announced Aug. 31. Intelsat will offer its Globalconnex Managed Solutions, including Voice over IP, […]

Loral Skynet teamed with Global Crossing, a provider of terrestrial-based telecommunications services, to extend the communications network of the British Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to its most remote island […]

Technology MITEQ Introduces New High Dynamic Range Fiber Optic Link MITEQ announced the introduction of its new 18 GHz SCM Fiber Optic Link. The 18 GHz version is an addition […]

In our June column, we reviewed the history and status of small satellites, generally considered to be those weighing less than 500 kilograms when fully fueled, from the commercial side. […]

By Lisa Daniel After enduring years of low prices created by too many vehicles and too few satellites, the commercial launch industry is undergoing a market correction that is filling […]

By Peter J. Brown The movie industry is waking up to the fact that satellite-based distribution today represents a viable alternative to the old way of distributing films. When it […]

Systems By Greg Berlocher Since their inception, network management systems have made the metamorphic change from basic monitoring aids to feature-rich management tools. Built on powerful and robust computing platforms, […]

By Peter Brown More than 800 emergency response and technical support personnel along with two dozen or so satellite-equipped vehicles descended on San Diego in late August for the Strong […]

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of August, the European Commission released a series of studies it requested from outside experts to help prepare a review of the European […]

Even though The Boeing Company decided to shut down its high-speed broadband communications offering, Connexion by Boeing, in August, the move may have been one of the company’s strongest. Closing […]

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) deployed its newest geospatial intelligence mobile system Aug. 28 in support of Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) preparations for Hurricane Ernesto, NGA announced. The […]