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  The Air Force has asked the Department of Defense (DOD) expedite the review process triggered by massive cost growth of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communications system […]

A new report finds that seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States still hasn’t mounted an effective effort to prevent the spread of nuclear and other catastrophic […]

Energomash Science and Production Association has developed a rocket engine with reusable liquid propellant engines that can markedly lower the cost per launch, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. […]

Engineers finished testing a small solid rocket motor that will help to separate the second stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket from the first stage, NASA announced. That small […]

New North Korean Missile Launching Facility Taking Shape North Korea, which with great fanfare demolished a portion of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, now is […]

Russia Lambasted For Continued Occupation Of Georgian Provinces; Asian Nations Provide $40 Million Low-Interest Loan To Georgia But Some U.S. Lawmakers Still Are Cool To Providing Funds Required To Build […]

Chinese Space Advances Come As NASA Faces Serious Woes China is wrapping up preparations for liftoff as early as next week of its third manned space flight that will include […]

Providing a European focus to news, the popular euronews can be found on pay-TV platforms around the world. However, the rules of the broadcast landscape have changed, raising a number […]

Eric Cooney, head of TV solutions at Ericsson, wants to expand the Ericsson brand name into the satellite community. Cooney, the CEO of Tandberg Television when it was acquired by […]

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its Mediaroom Advertising Platform, which will allow broadband service providers deploying the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform to offer targeted, measurable and interactive advertising spots from […]

Irdeto has expanded a set-top box license agreement with Cisco Systems, enabling Cisco to integrate Irdeto’s conditional access solution with its set-top boxes.      As result of this agreement, Cisco […]

Nagravision will supply a conditional access system for Iraqi satellite network Alsumaria TV, Nagravision announced.      Alsumaria transmits on both Nilesat and Arabsat, and Alsumaria’s Mobision mobile TV service is […]

HBO Central Europe signed a deal with Spacecom to expand HBO’s channel bouquet on the Amos satellites, Spacecom announced.       Under the 10-year agreement, HBO initially will launch three new […]

Mergers and acquisitions constantly reshape various sectors of the industry as well as the show floor at IBC. Ericsson’s acquisition of Tandberg Television and SES’s takeover of ND SatCom are […]

Mergers and acquisitions constantly reshape various sectors of the industry as well as the show floor at IBC. Ericsson’s acquisition of Tandberg Television and SES’s takeover of ND SatCom are […]

[Satellite Today 09-15-08] Tam Tam TV, an entertainment channel in the Ivory Coast, has chosen GlobeCast to provide a broadcast solution that combines remote broadcast delivery via internet with satellite […]

 [Satellite Today 09-15-08] Cybernet has implemented a satellite-based IP network built on iDirect’s Evolution DVB-S2 product line with adaptive coding and modulation, iDirect announced Sept. 14.    According to Cybernet, […]

 [Satellite Today 09-15-08] Integral Systems Europe delivered and installed a fully-integrated carrier signal monitoring, transponder planning, and network management system for the Vinasat satellite program, Integral said Sept. 15.     […]

 [Satellite Today 09-15-08] ViaSat received an order for 5,000 SurfBeam Ka-band broadband terminals from OpenSky for the launch of Eutelsat Tooway consumer broadband service in Italy, ViaSat announced Sept. 15. […]

[Satellite Today 09-15-08] Talia has acquired a large amount of capacity on Telesat‘s Telstar 12 satellite, Telesat announced Sept. 15.     According to Telesat, Talia will use the capacity to […]

[Satellite Today 09-15-08] A.P. Moller / Maersk, a Danish shipping group, has signed a contract with Marlink for a retrofit of Inmarsat FleetBroadband across its supply service and tanker fleet, […]

[Satellite Today 09-15-08] Mega Hertz, a cable industry distributor, has placed an order with Wegener Corp. for Unity 4600 professional satellite receivers totaling over $800,000, Wegener announced Sept. 15.     […]

I’m generally cynical when it comes to hearing about the promise of new satellite services and how a market is set to become hot at any second. It probably comes […]

Thomson is one of the key technology vendors to satellite pay-TV operators world-wide, and its technology will be key in helping satellite pay-TV operators stay ahead of cable and IPTV […]

Satellite operators have seen the prices for launch services rise, and continued growth could begin have an impact on future satellite purchases. There has been “huge increases in launch service […]

TeamCast unveiled two new modulators in its ModulCast range — the MMB-1000/2000 and MIS-1000/2000.      The products meet the CMMB standard for mobile YV in China and the ISDB-T standard […]

Tecom Industries, a Smiths Interconnect company, along with German antenna developer Quantenelektronische Systeme GmbH (Qest), jointly will produce and market airborne broadband antennas for in-flight satellite and IP connectivity. QEST […]

ND SatCom introduced an advanced version of its RCU 5000 (redundancy control unit) that supports VSAT as well as mobile and fixed uplink station configurations for broadcast applications.       The […]

Cybernet has implemented a next-generation IP network built on iDirect’s Evolution DVB-S2 product line with adaptive coding and modulation, iDirect announced.      Cybernet will use the network to provide broadband […]

DataPath Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with Metracom to provide sales and integration support for the MaxView network management system in Europe, DataPath announced.       Metracom, a French company […]