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[Via Satellite 07-11-2014] Iridium has selected a new billing and revenue management solution provided by Oracle Communications in advance of the launch of Iridium NEXT. In the past, Iridium added...

[Via Satellite 07-11-2014] In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) provider Global Eagle Entertainment has, effective immediately, appointed Dave Davis as the company’s new CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Global Eagle...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] Meeting with top European Union (EU) officials at Digital Venice 2014, SES CEO Karim Sabbagh and European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) Secretary General, Aarti Holla highlighted the...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] The Lockheed Martin-built third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite finished environmental testing at the company’s Dual Entry Large Thermal Altitude chamber. Lockheed Martin’s Vice President of...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] Ball Aerospace confirmed it received the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy Systems (CERES) instrument built by Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Division on June 17. CERES will be integrated...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) are working together to build a new Earth observation satellite: Alsat 1B. The new satellite builds...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] Globecomm has begun offering Mobile Virtual Network operator (MVNO) services worldwide. The company is handling all back-end operations using its own infrastructure and the Globecomm MBOX platform...

[Via Satellite 07-10-2014] On July 1, 2014 NSSLGlobal opened its Southbury Conn. Teleport to new and existing customers. NSSLGlobal is operating the new teleport together with the company’s Jacksonville Fla....

[Via Satellite 07-09-2014] In-flight connectivity (IFC) has become a top market opportunity for the satellite industry but despite this Euroconsult believes it will not be a profitable market until 2023....

[Via Satellite 07-09-2014] On July 8, 2014 a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket carried Russia’s Meteor M2 weather satellite along with six small satellites for domestic and international customers. The launch took...