[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] The wholesale average selling price of GPS-enabled handsets will fall under $200 by 2010, according to a new report by ABI Research. Currently, most handsets...
[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Iridium Satellite has upgraded the satellite phones used by Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station, the company announced Feb. 7. Russian authorities are replacing...
[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Spanish direct-to-home platform Digital+ added only 21,000 net subscribers in the fourth quarter to close 2007 with 2.1 million subscribers, the company announced Feb. 5. ...
[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Hughes India has signed a contract to supply 10,000 broadband satellite terminals to Comat Technologies in India, Hughes announced Feb. 4. The Hughes-Comat consortium won...
[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Bigelow Aerospace and Lockheed Martin are in talks to use Atlas 5 launch vehicles to supply crew and cargo to a Bigelow-built space complex, Bigelow announced...
[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Colombia’s Avianca Airlines will be installing Iridium value-added service provider Avionica’s Iridium-based satLink communications module on its fleet, Iridium announced Feb. 5. Avionica’s satLink Iridium system...
[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Indian direct-to-home operator Tata Sky plans to introduce a personal video recorder (PVR) by the end of the year, the company announced Feb. 5. The...
[Satellite Today – 2-4-08] Israeli satellite communications company SatLink Communications launched its new multi channel per carrier platform on Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite, the company said Feb. 4. Uplinks are...
[Satellite Today – 2-4-08] NewTec has released a new antenna pointing systems intended to eliminate installation costs associated with broadband over satellite systems, the company announced Feb. 4. Dubbed...
[Satellite Today – 2-4-08] The Rascom-QAF1 satellite has been moved into its final geostationary orbit at 2.85Ëš East, Thales Alenia Space announced Feb. 4. The spacecraft carries 12 Ku-band...