Connectivity

[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 News 08-05-09] The satellite set-top-box (STB) market saw a 6 percent increase in 2008, with growth predicted to be steady for the next two years, according to a report […]

[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 08-04-09] 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 08-03-09] 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 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Eutelsat increased its yearly revenues by more than 7 percent to 940.5 million euros ($1.3 billion) at the end of June, compared to 877.8 million euros ($1.2 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Integral Systems has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over fraud charges filed against the company in 2008, Integral Systems announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Beyond DSL, Ten Haaft and Conrad Anderson have formed a mobile satellite broadband Internet technology partnership in the United Kingdom, the companies announced July 31.     The […]

The market for satellite technology has remained strong over the last few years, shrugging off the financial woes experienced in consumer markets. Although sales curves are at a notably lower […]

In the past two years, the development of new satellite communications-on-the-move products and service offerings has been heating up. Whether live news video streaming from moving vehicles, rear-seat entertainment for […]

Unregulated but regulated. Which is it? This is the uncertainty that has arisen since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed regulations on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), while declaring […]

In the commercial satellite world the idea of hybrid networks has become increasingly important. Hughes Network Systems, for example, now sees itself as a network management firm and offers not […]

Innovative businesses offering new services to the public — and whose growth is measured in subscribers — are confronted with tricky math and public and investor relations tied to a […]

On both sides of the Atlantic, policymakers are devising programs to ensure that citizens have access to broadband services. For its part, the European Union (EU) has included funding for […]

There are very few satellite executives that have worked as intimately with the U.S. military and government sectors as Intelsat General President Kay Sears, who has spent the past several […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Orolia, a developer of precision timing, positioning and synchronization electronics systems, signed an agreement with Airtek Capital Group to acquire Kannad SAS, a French supplier of maritime, […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] SES Astra signed a capacity deal with German satellite service provider InSat, SES Astra announced July 30.     InSat will use a transponder on Astra 2C to […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Comtech AHA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, released AHA367-PCIe, a high-speed data compression board based on the open standard GZIP data compression algorithm, Comtech announced July […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] DEV Systemtechnik has re-designed its L-band signal distribution system, DEV 2180 to include a controller and SNMP/Ethernet interface and hot-pluggable amplifiers as standard features for the appliance, […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Norsat reported revenues of $4.5 million in its 2009 second quarter, a 23 percent increase from the $3.6 million mark the company hit in the same period […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] BSkyB has hit a five-year annual subscriber net growth high in 2009, according to its full-year results, released July 30.     The U.K. operator expanded its customer […]

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Vislink News and Entertainment is adding electronic news gathering (ENG) antennas to its range of SNG, ENG and wireless products for the broadcast industry, Vislink announced July […]

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] ViaSat Enerdyne has released its EnerLinks 3 Autotracking Antenna System (ETAS), a complete ground station for video and ISR data links, which uses the EnerLinks 3 ground […]

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Information technology and managed network services provider Artel won $61.1 million in contracts in the first half of 2009, according to the company’s financial reports released July […]

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) completed human safety qualification testing for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle’s first stage tank and interstage at SpaceX’s test site in Waco, Texas, […]