Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Mohamed Youssif has been appointed CEO of YahLive, a partnership between SES Astra and Yahsat offering satellite capacity for DTH services to the Middle East, North Africa...

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Interorbital Systems (IOS), a U.S.-based rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company, is marketing the launch and orbit of personal-use satellites to the general public, the company announced Aug....

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Stratos Global deployed an Inmarsat FleetBroadband mobile satellite system onboard the tall ship Bark Europa to broadcast coverage of the final leg of the Tall Ships Atlantic...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] ProtoStar has reached an agreement with its principal lender groups after filing July 29 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and Bermuda, the company...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Hughes Network Systems signed an agreement to supply Bentley Walker with its new HX mesh satellite network technology for delivering broadband services in the Middle East and...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] GlobeCast has signed a deal with China Central Television (CCTV) to distribute CCTV’s newly-launched Arabic channel to the Middle East and North Africa via Arabsat’s BADR-6 satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Gilat Satellite Networks subsidiary Spacenet introduced its Prysm Pro application, the company’s second-generation integrated and off-the-shelf IP networking solution, Spacenet announced Aug. 3.     Spacenet said Prysm...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Sky Deutschland has appointed Wolfram Winter senior vice president of distribution and development, the company announced July 31.     Winter will be responsible for further developing co-operative...

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] BSkyB is planning to launch a 3-D TV channel in 2010, the company announced July 31.     The service will be broadcast across Sky’s existing HD infrastructure...

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] SES reported operating profits of 359.9 million euros in the first half of 2009, an increase of 9.2 percent over the first half of 2008, according to...